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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Aadhaar card enrollment sprints ahead of government-run NPR, courtesy Nandan Nilekani -Aman Sharma

Aadhaar card enrollment sprints ahead of government-run NPR, courtesy Nandan Nilekani -Aman Sharma

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published Published on Apr 30, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 30, 2013
-The Economic Times


In the race to give each Indian a unique identity number, the government's National Population Register (NPR) project is being steadily outpaced by Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar project, buttressing a commonly-held notion that a corporate style-run operation is more efficient than a government-run scheme even when both do the same task deploying the same technique.

A Home Ministry's assessment of both the projects shows that as on March 31, 2013, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued unique numbers to 31.19 crore persons after enrolling nearly 38 crore persons by capturing their biometric details such as finger prints and iris scan in addition to photographs.

The government-run NPR project, however, has captured similar biometrics of only 12.74 crore persons, just a third of UIDAI.

While Nilekani told a Washington-based think-tank on April 22 that UIDAI is enrolling three crore persons every month by taking their biometrics, the Home Ministry has admitted before Parliament a day later that NPR is only able to collect biometrics of 1.39 crore persons each month.

UIDAI Chairman Nilekani, the former boss of Infosys Technologies, had in his lecture in Washington, said that UIDAI will complete its task of capturing biometrics and issuing unique numbers to 60 crore persons by 2014. "We have enrolled 380 million of 1.2 billion people in India. Our daily processing is about a million people a day and our goal is to reach 400 million this year and 600 million by 2014," Nilekani had said.

The presentation said there were over 25,000 enrollment stations set up by UIDAI across the country in a "public-private partnership operations model", which had made the task possible. The NPR project, on the other hand, is a government-run model with officials of the Registrar General of India (RGI) setting up camps across the country.

NPR is supposed to send these biometric details to UIDAI so that they can issue unique identity numbers to persons whose biometrics have not been captured by UIDAI.


The Economic Times, 30 April, 2013, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/and/nation/Aadhaar-card-enrollment-sprints-ahead-of-government-run-NPR-courtesy-Nandan-Nilekani/articleshow/197922


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