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ID crisis: Is Aadhaar/UID going the UK way to doom?

The future of UID cards The UIDAI claims to have enrolled about 20 crore people so far, but many questions remain unanswered on the issues clouding the ambitious project to give a number to every resident of the country, intended… Continue Reading →

The UIDAI project: why some of the optimism might be Nir-aadhar

A few months ago Nandan Nilekani had published an editorial in the National Medical Journal of India extolling the virtues of the Aadhar project for health. His article is available at Editorial-II.pdf Anant Bhan  and Sunita Bandewar have responded to this… Continue Reading →

Unreliable Aadhar data to be used for Food Bill

SAGNIK DUTTA NEW DELHI | 18th Mar , Sunday Guardian A customer pushes a shopping trolley down an aisle at a retail supermarket in Mumbai on Friday. ‘It is unlikely that UIDAI will improve the efficiency of the government’s welfare… Continue Reading →

On the questionable legality of the NPR and the UID projects

Feb 29,2012 Dear Mr Raja On 13 December, 2011, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance presented its 42nd Report, on the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, to the Lok Sabha. It was laid before the Rajya Sabha on… Continue Reading →

UIDAI and the textbook case study of how not to do it, one for the business schools

By- David Moss The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) came under attack. Its very existence was threatened. Naturally enough, UIDAI decided to defend itself. It’s worked. UIDAI survives for the moment. But theirs is a Pyrrhic victory. The UIDAI… Continue Reading →

7000 Aadhaar cards remain undelivered, addresses untraced

TNN | Feb 7, 2012 KARWAR: The ‘untraced’ addresses of the Aadhaar card holders in Coastal taluks of Uttara Kannada district has landed the postal authorities in a piquant situation. About 7,000 Aadhaar cards are lying in the various post… Continue Reading →

The Politics of Identity

In the hurry to meet targets, UIDAI is missing its goals

  Lost Identity- Prabha Jagannathan Feb1, 2012- The Week The division among economists and social activists over whether the Unique Identity (UID) programme, or Aadhaar, will streamline the government’s social sector and welfare programme roadmap or disrupt it seems to… Continue Reading →

UID, NPR and all that Jazz

Jaimon Joseph Some three months ago, my wife, her sister and their parents drove seven odd kilometers from where we live, to register for a Universal Identity or UID number. They’ve all got one now. Strangely, my wife got it… Continue Reading →

India’s ID plan: An end to its inept bureaucracy or an Orwellian nightmare?

    Eric Randolph Feb 1, 2012 NEW DELHI– A plan to provide each of India’s 1.2 billion citizens with a unique identification number has been praised as an essential programme to impose some efficiency on India’s infamously inept bureaucracy…. Continue Reading →

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