The Prime Minister's Office has intervened in the simmering dispute between the home ministry and the Planning Commission over the capture of aadhaar biometrics by ensuring that the issue will be taken up by the Cabinet Committee on uid next week. According to a government source, principal secretary to the prime minister Pulok Chatterjee is learnt to have told officials handling the issue that uid, a major initiative of UPA,...
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uid data not reliable: Home Ministry to Cabinet Secretary by Meetu Jain
The row between uidAI Chairperson Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Unique Identification (uid) project has intensified. The Home Ministry has written to the Cabinet Secretary, seeking a clear cut direction on who will do the enrollment. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the note. In the note, the Home Secretary has stated that the uid data is not reliable as anyone can get themselves registered under any...
More »Chidambaram seeks Cabinet meeting to resolve uid row by Rajeev Deshpande
Home minister P Chidambaram has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to call a Cabinet meeting to sort out differences between North Block and Planning Commission that threaten to scupper the ambitious programme. "I request that you may kindly instruct the Planning Commission to immediately bring a note to the Cabinet that the cabinet secretariat to list the note before the Cabinet so that a final decision can be...
More »PM stands firm by Nilekani, uid scheme set to cover all by Chetan Chauhan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has fully supported Unique Identification Authority of India (uidAI) chief Nandan Nilekani’s effort to enroll all residents of India under the Aadhaar card scheme. Singh has instructed the Planning Commission to bring a proposal before the cabinet to provide statutory powers to uidAI to enroll beyond the present limit of 20 crore people. The home ministry, which is collecting biometric details of people for creating the National...
More »Empire strikes back by Samar Halarnkar
As you read this, the Unique Identity (uid) programme is likely to have enrolled 200 million Indians. The uid, if it is allowed to, will eventually become the world's largest database of human biometric markers - fingerprints, photo and iris scans. It could go on to 400 million by the end of the year and 600 million by next year. What good is this? If you talk to opponents concerned with civil...
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