-The Indian Express UIDAI: PM wants 100 cr enrolment at earliest, linking aadhaar to passports, benefits. Putting to rest speculation about the fate of the UPA government's flagship aadhaar project and the Direct Benefits Transfer scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought a 100-crore enrolment target under aadhaar at the "earliest", also asking officials to look into linking passports with its data. The Prime Minister also gave a decisive push to all...
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Tug of war over aadhaar slowing its progress -Aloke Tikku
-The Hindustan Times Three NDA ministries are trying to pull the UPA's signature project, aadhaar, in different directions, threatening to further slow down the plan to give all residents a unique identity number (UID). Sources told HT that three ministries - home, planning and information technology - were preparing to move the cabinet with their own plans for aadhaar launched by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani. aadhaar numbers have already been generated for 640...
More »Three ministries at loggerheads on aadhaar implementation -Nitin Sethi, Surabhi Agarwal & Sahil Makkar
-The Business Standard The confusion over aadhaar's future has deepened and, to be resolved, will require ministerial intervention through the next week The turf battle over aadhaar continues under the National Democratic Alliance government, too. Three ministries have prepared separate Cabinet notes, chartering contradictory courses for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Consequently, the confusion over aadhaar's future has deepened and, to be resolved, will require ministerial intervention through the next week. The...
More »NDA's national ID cards may kill UPA's aadhaar -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a move to target government welfare schemes and subsidies on citizens of the country, the Union home ministry has asked the Registrar General of India (RGI) to identify the 'citizens' and 'non-citizens' while preparing the National Population Register (NPR). The NPR authorities will undertake a door-to-door verification exercise across the country in this regard. The citizens' register, to be called the National Register of Indian...
More »aadhaar and the rhetoric of fear -Praveen Chakravarty
-The Indian Express Five years on, we need to examine our xenophobic reactions and paranoia of the intrusive state. Five years and Rs 4,000 crore ($800mn) later, there is a pregnant pause. "Are you who you claim you are?" is a question that more than 60 crore Indian residents can now answer with integrity. Twenty-three out of the 36 states and Union territories of India can now verify the authenticity of more...
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