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Shillong, July 25 (IANS) The Meghalaya government Thursday decided to keep in abeyance the National Population Register (NPR) biometric enrolment after student activists disrupted the NPR camps across this mountainous state’s capital. “We have decided to keep the NPR… Continue Reading →
_ The Statesman 28 Jul 2013 Usha Ramanathan In the beginning, and for some time thereafter, the UID project based its claims of legitimacy on the ‘inclusion’ of the poor. In marketing the project, phrases such as giving identity to… Continue Reading →
by Robin Chatterjee 22nd July, 2013 in Security In April 2013 when Maharashtra government admitted to the loss of personal data of around 3 lakh applicants for Aadhaar card, it served to highlight just the tip of the potentially disastrous, catastrophic iceberg we… Continue Reading →
Usha Ramanathan There was no feasibility study and no cost-benefit analysis that preceded the launch of the UID project. In August 2010, a year and a half after the project was set up, there was a question in the Lok… Continue Reading →
The Statesman, Usha Ramanathan Nandan Nilekani was appointed as Chairperson of the UIDAI on 2 July 2009. In an extraordinary gesture, he was simultaneously, and in addition, given the rank of Cabinet Minister. This gave him the status,… Continue Reading →
Arunav Sinha, TNN | Jul 15, 2013, 04.19 AM IST UIDAI Lucknow office under SC panel lens for ‘casteism’UIDAI announcement for re-enrolmentUIDAI launches online identity authentication servicesUIDAI unveils three online identity authentication services LUCKNOW:… Continue Reading →
Person enrolling citizens at Ramamurthynagar demands money from applicants, says he can’t render ‘free service’ as the state is paying him a paltry RS 5,000 S Kushala, Bangalore Mirror Posted On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 Allegations of the process… Continue Reading →
Nandan Nilekani and his UID/Aadhaar project appear quite complicit in unconstitutional act of surrendering the country’s interest in favour of a global system led by ungovernable and undemocratic business enterprises not by democratic legislatures, says Gopal Krishna “The… Continue Reading →
The Statesman 13 Jul 2013 Usha Ramanathan Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance dismissed with scathing comments an attempt by the Manmohan Singh government to give the UIDAI project the sanction of law. No effort has been made to remedy this… Continue Reading →
Usha Ramanathan In July 2010, UIDAI announced names of the companies that had been selected to implement the core biometric identification system. These companies would design, supply, install, commission, maintain and support the “multi-modal Automatic Biometric Identification System and multimodal… Continue Reading →