The document discusses the plans for a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Aadhaar program. Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the first chairman of UIDAI to oversee the creation of a unique identification number for every Indian resident. The UIDAI would create a simple database with basic identity details like name, date of birth, and biometrics. It would eliminate the need for other ID cards and help improve government service delivery.
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Seminar by J.V.Jayashiri Svccam
The document discusses the plans for a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Aadhaar program. Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the first chairman of UIDAI to oversee the creation of a unique identification number for every Indian resident. The UIDAI would create a simple database with basic identity details like name, date of birth, and biometrics. It would eliminate the need for other ID cards and help improve government service delivery.
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SEMINAR BY
J.V.JAYASHIRI SVCCAM to keep a check on infiltrators, particularly if illegal immigrants acquire PoIs and PoAs from intermediaries and mingle with common Indians.
curbing illegal immigration has been one of
the main motives of the government in planning a unique ID (UID) for every Indian. help in law and order enforcement, implementing the quota system for public distribution, defining social welfare entitlements, financial inclusion and improving overall efficiency of the government administration. various government departments have been issuing….
Ration cards (serves as PoAs)
PAN cards (not acceptable as PoAs) Passports and driving licences (both) EPICs (electoral photo identity cards) or voter ID cards 'Acknowledging the existence of every single citizen automatically compels the state to improve the quality of services and immediately give the citizen better access',
-wrote Nandan Nilekani in his book
'Imagining India.' The Unique Identification Authority of India ( Hindi: भारतीय ििििष पहचान पाििकरण), or the UIDAI,
IS an agency of the Government of India responsible
for implementing the envisioned Multipurpose National Identity Card or Unique Identific project in India. Unique Identification Authority of India भारतीय ििििष पहचान पाििकरण Agency overview Formed February 2009 Jurisdiction Government of India (Union
Headquarters New Delhi
Agency executive Nandan Nilekani, Chairman It was established in February 2009, and will own and operate the Unique Identification Number database.
A unique number to all Indians, but not smart
cards.
The authority would provide a database of
residents containing very simple data in biometrics. Nandan Nilekani, a former co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, was appointed as the first Chairman of the authority in June 2009.
R.S Sharma, an IAS Officer of Jharkhand
Government cadre has been appointed as the Director General and Mission Director of the Authority. Nandan Nilekani, co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies Ltd, the country’s second largest software company,
Nilekani,54, was appointed as the head
of the ID project by the UPA Government. He was appointed the chairperson(with cabinet minister rank and status). Mr.Nilekani has been chosen to head the authority considering that the project will be based on various tools and techniques of Information Technology and there will be need to keep updating the system. “IT is an important ministry for carrying out the project. He met Mr A.Raja to seek his co-operation ,”
The UID card will eliminate the need for the
existing ID cards like an electoral card, ration card, driving license, passport and PAN card as the identification cards issued under the scheme will carry all the required details including the biometric details of every Indian citizen. Mr. Nilekani met Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli deora, *co-operation.. - Income Tax and state fuel retailers -service 110 million LPG customers. - data of PAN card applicants available with the Income Tax Department. The huge database with oil marketing
companies would be useful in covering a
large part of the population, linked to agencies such as the Election Commission of India and the Income Tax Department.. In addition, it will be used for..
providing services under
government schemes such as the public distribution system, and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for families living below the poverty line. It will also be used for delivering financial and other assistance to the needy. Department of posts (DoP), with its network of over 150,000 offices can play a vital role in information collection, -delivery of ID cards, and for validation of address change requests.
The risk of data corruption, unauthorised
access, commercial exploitation of the database can be minimised by limiting the UID related data collection, not linking this database to any other databases for banking, education, public distribution and given the limited space, UID cards can probably display information printed in say English, Hindi and one more local language. But such cards issued in one state may not make much sense in the interiors of other states.
Also, cards may get spoiled, misplaced, lost
or stolen . “We will have a very simple database, which provides biometric and demographic identity details like name, number, date of birth, very basic things,” he said. Various government departments might use the database for different purposes. The Union Labor Ministry has offered its
verified Employment Provident Fund (EPFO)
database of 42 million citizens as the first database to be integrated into the unique ID system. One estimate of the cost to completely roll- out National IDs to all Indian residents above the age of 18 has been placed at Rs 150,000 crore (US$ 30.9 billion).
A sum of Rs. 100 crore (US$ 20.6 million)
was approved in the 2009-2010 union budget to fund the agency for its first year of existence. Initial estimates project that the initiative will create 100,000 new jobs in the country,
Mr. Nilekani noted that his first task would
be to set up a team by picking up the best talent available from the government as well as the private sector to prepare the residents’ database.