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Overall Input: Census for UID will be covered by 2010-11 mostly.
The Rs 2,000-crore project to bring all 16,000 police stations in the country under a single network to counter terror challenges will become operational by 2011-12, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today.
the Multi Purpose National Identity Cards (MNIC) will be issued to 1.1 billion resident Indians after the completion of enumeration work next year he said inaugurating a conference of small entrepreneurship here.
Banks will play a key role in the adoption of UID by coming together to create interoperable systems much in the way as they came together to set up ATMs that are interoperable.
UID will have tie up with
NREGA
Will not have any Caste, Religion
Will nclude the name, address, date of birth and biometric identification through fingerprinting and Face
here will be no personal details like caste, religion and income of the person in the UID database
Purpose of UID: It will only guarantee identity and will not confer any rights, benefits or entitlements. It does not confer citizenship. The residents would however be spared the hassle of repeatedly providing supporting identity documents each time they open a bank account or apply for passport or a driving licence or any other similar service. It will be accepted as identity proof across service providers.
The Cost: Residents will not be charged for enrolling for the UID numbers.
Is it mandatory? No. The authority believes that getting the UID number will be demand-driven, where the benefits and services linked to the number will ensure demand for it. Even schools will demand a childs UID before admission
Updating information: The UID number will remain the same for a lifetime, but biometric information would have to be updated every five years for children and ten years for adults. .
When a person goes to work on a project, you can record it with his UID, when he gets some work you can record it again. It is all in the system, authenticated. “That way you can go to a much higher kind of system that will be real time in nature, with authentication built in.”
At some point, if a commercial organisation wants to use the UID data base for something like address verification, then the authority could levy a charge and earn revenue. A mobile company or bank today spends a certain amount on knowing its customer. “If we can save them some money by doing an online verification, then there could be a charge.”
“The UID project is really for the huge number of people who are outside the system. For the poor, this is a huge benefit because they have no identity, no birth certificates, degree certificates, drivers licence, passport, no address. There are 75 million homeless people in this country, 75 million tribals. So if we are able to help them get the number then we can actually empower them,” Nilekani says.
India is the second largest populous country in the world with over 1.18 billion people and the 2010 census along with issuing of National Identity biometrics card will have to reach out to the length and breadth of the nation and its citizens
Pic of A migrant family in a Brick and Kiln factory
Image of Census, UID and locked Homes
One is forced to ponder on a question whether it will reckon all people and cover all eligible citizens?
Challenge is to assure the seasonal migrants get their UID who are still isolated from any major Social and Economic links of the society
UID card needs people to be present physically in their Village, which mightnt be possible in each and everycase, in these scenario, the cost, time and physiological effort in providing the Biometric identificatioin would be a major challenge to the Nandan Nilekani.,
I am sure the id-card will help them reestablishing their citizenship rights which have been fast deteriorating due to distress and forced mobility and offer the migrant their legitimate and uninterrupted access to social security, food entitlement, childrens education, health, insurance, voting rights like a roaming mobile phone at all time and all places
Migration