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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PC ready with card vs Montek number by Nishit Dholabhai

PC ready with card vs Montek number by Nishit Dholabhai

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published Published on Jan 21, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 21, 2012

The smart card versus unique identity number battle between P. Chidambaram and Montek Singh Ahluwalia will hit the ground tomorrow at Porthapur village in Andaman and Nicobar Islands when the home minister hands out the first tranche of 2.56 lakh resident identity cards.

The resident cards are a rival to the unique identity number conceived by the Planning Commission to establish authentic identification for each resident and cut out corruption in social welfare schemes.

“This is a project prior to the UID,” registrar general and census commissioner C. Chandramouli said.

But 110 million unique identity numbers — called Aadhaar — have already been issued and the cabinet will on Wednesday get an update on the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India. The authority is close to meeting its initial mandate of signing up 200 million Indians and will now need an extension.

“On Wednesday we are taking the note to the cabinet, we have no problems if the MHA wants to do it differently,” Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia said today.

Chidambaram had yesterday written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask Ahluwalia to move a cabinet note to clarify the status of the Unique Identification Authority of India project.

Following the first lot in Porthapur, the home minister will distribute resident cards at Pattipulam village in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

After the 26/11 terror attacks, it was announced that resident cards would be rolled out in nine maritime states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Bengal and the Union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Daman & Diu.

Chidambaram’s smart cards — like Nilekani’s identity number — use biometry. His ministry now wants UIDAI to stop collecting biometric data and leave the job to the Registrar General of India, which is collecting the data for the smart cards.

In what is looking like a turf battle, the home ministry also wants the unique identity number to be made part of its smart card and maintenance and update of the database to be in the hands of the office of registrar general and census commissioner, not the UIDAI.

The resident card has a 64KB microprocessor chip and can be used at any ATM and back-linked to a ration card system, Chandramouli said.

The “national identity number will have to be mapped with the UID” or the two reconciled in the 3,331 coastal villages where the resident cards will be issued, he said.

“The UID needs a medium to reach the main server. You will have to pay mobile operators or have an Internet connection to use the UID,” Chandramouli said, adding that he did not have anything against the Aadhaar number. “For the RIC, you only need a reader. The card will have fingerprint details also and can even be used for voting,” he told The Telegraph.

Ahluwalia had recently said Aadhaar was a more practical option when it comes to electronic transfer of benefits to the rural poor. The card would need a reader while the unique identity number can be used “even through” mobile phones, he had pointed out.

“We are not talking about national security, we are only talking about the UID, it will not be appropriate for me to talk about the contents of the note prior to going to the cabinet,” Ahluwalia said today.

The approved cost of the resident card scheme is Rs 216.31 crore. So far, the demographic data of 12 million people and biometric data of 75 lakh residents has been collected for the project. Five lakh cards have been produced.

The Rs 10,000-crore Aadhar project is conceived on a much bigger scale.

The Telegraph, 20 January, 2012, http://telegraphindia.com/1120121/jsp/nation/story_15033937.jsp


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