New Delhi: The Unique Identification project has enrolled 270 million people in last three years and the data collected through it can be used to provide various benefits like direct cash transfer to cardholders, UID project chief Nandan Nilekani said on Monday.
Addressing a gathering here, Nilekani also expressed the need to make the project irreversible by providing "compelling services" to the people. "This is three years since we launched this project. We have enrolled 270 million people into the system and issued unique numbers to 220 million people. We enroll at the rate of over a million people a day. So lets say we can do Finland in a week and Australia in three weeks," he said.
Replying to a question on the future of the project under a new government after the 2014 general election, Nilekani said, "What is required is to make it irreversible, that is the way to look at this problem."
"In our view, if half a billion people in this country have this identity number and if they are getting a couple of very compelling services through this number then their voices will speak for it," he said....
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09:22 AM, Jan 27, 2012
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06:10 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The government is likely to take the final decision on Wednesday on the proposal to give statutory powers to Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI to issue national identity cards to the entire population instead of the mandated 200 million. "A Cabinet Committee will take a view on the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) proposal for expanding its mandate to enroll the entire population," a source said. The Planning Commission...
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The row between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Unique ID project has intensified. ...
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Bangalore: One of independent India's most ambitious endeavours, Aadhar, (the Unique Identification Number-UID), seems to be on course in achieving its target as Aadhar cards have been issued to over one crore people. Speaking at a seminar organised by NASSCOM on Aadhar and its functioning, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan Nilekani said they were in talks with NASSCOM on whether they could provide a platform...
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New Delhi: It’s not just the opposition that's facing Pranab Mukherjee's wrath. Babus from various ministries have been at the receiving end as well. That's because while the minister made lofty promises in last year's budget, the bureaucrats meant to carry them out just didn’t deliver. The next budget is out on Monday but the Finance minister isn’t happy with what various ministries have done with the announcements in his...
07:00 AM, Feb 27, 2011
Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani heads the UID project that aims to roll out 16-digit unique number by 2011. ...
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