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Census and Aadhar teams take separate counts, neither wants the other’s data by Chinki Sinha
The National Population Register and the Unique Identification Authority of India, which assigns Aadhar numbers, are at loggerheads with each unwilling to use the other’s data.
The NPR has cited security concerns about the UAIDAI data since it has been using multiple registrars. The UAIDAI, in turn, has said the NPR needs first to complete a process of public scrutiny, which the latter says will take time.

As a result, two camps are collecting biometric data from citizens in many parts of the country. The matter is now with the cabinet that is to decide which agency would continue to do so. There is a chance that the work will be divided, a senior official said.

Last month, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi questioned the duplication of work and the wastage of resources. Each machine costs Rs 1 lakh; there are 25 lakh enumeration blocks of 600 people, with two NPR camps in each.

The NPR is one of the UIDAI’s many registrars and has to follow its format that includes an iris scan along with collection of fingerprints. This is at the centre of the debate, apart from the compilation of the Local Register of Usual Residents (LRUR), a verification process that is mandatory as per the NPR mandate and which the UIDAI is insisting on.

“The NPR process started in the coastal areas in 2009. Then, there was no UIDAI. Now, we have to do those again as we didn’t do the iris scan then,” an NPR official said. “We are a subset of them and they are a subset of us. But they have not taken our data. They insist on LRUR even though it is not in their process.”

“The biometric data collection of National Population Register is done at UIDAI standards and UIDAI-approved operators are collecting the biometric data from the usual residents,” an NPR release states. “It is further clarified that the NPR project is not in competition with any of the UIDAI vendors as the objective of NPR is quite a different one than allotment of UID number alone.”

The LRUR draft is to be on display, so that citizens can point out errors. “In the Demographic Data Standards and Verification Procedure Committee Report, the KYR verification procedure lays down the process and it says there are three distinct methods of verification and one of the those is ‘Based on the NPR process of public scrutiny’,” said R S Sharma, UIDAI director general. “N Vittal prescribed a process of verification. How can we can take incomplete data?”

The panel included 18 members including Dr R Chandramouli, the RGI. “We had security concerns since a large number of registrars are involved with the Aadhaar project and so we didn’t want to use their data,” Dr Chandramouli said. “We haven’t sent them anything from our side.”

Home Minister P Chidambaram had called the NPR a “statutory requirement” under the Citizenship Act. So far, the NPR has taken biometrics from 70 lakh people in coastal states, Manipur, Nagaland and Delhi, and plans to complete 1.2 billion by 2012-end. The UIDAI, which started collecting data last year, says it will complete 200 million by March 2012, and has proposed to do it for the entire population. Its target is 600 million by 2012.

As per the procedure, once the NPR database is finalised, the UIDAI would assign every individual an Aadhaar number after it has “de-duplicated” the NPR data, which includes a “National Identity Number”. “We were to send our data to the UIDAI and then they would send us the Aadhaar number and we would put it on the biometric card,” an NPR official said. “But imagine the waste of resources... LRUR is our final process. We had decided to send them our data without the LRUR, which is what our procedure requires, and keep one set with us.”

“If they tell us to stop doing this, we will not do the biometrics,” an UIDAI official said. “But I must tell you that everything is going on very well and we can do the entire population if we get the mandate.