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Compromise reached on Unique ID project row
Friday January 27, 2012 08:03:18 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A compromise formula over identity cards for 1.2 billion Indians
was worked out Friday with the government asking both the home
ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
to collect biometric data without any duplication.
A meeting of the cabinet committee on UIDAI chaired by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh extended the mandate of UIDAI to issue 600
million cards after the formula was approved. The authority has
already collected data from 200 million people of India.
The collection of biometric data by Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI had
sparked a row after the Planning Commission and the home ministry
were locked in a turf war over the project.
The home ministry had raised fears that its National Population
Register (NPR) project and the Planning Commission-mandated UIDAI
could end up duplicating the work of collecting biometric data.
But the issue seems to have been resolved now.
"The NPR will continue to capture biometric data, but if a person
says he or she has taken an Aadhar number, no biometric data will
then be collected by the NPR," Home Minister P. Chidambaram said
at a joint presser with Nilekani and Planning Commission Deputy
Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
"We had raised the issue that there will be duplication in the
collection of biometric ID. We had proposed that one authority
will collect biometric, the second authority will take it," said
Chidambaram.
Nilekani said: "We have promised to the cabinet we will do a
complete refresh of the strategy."
The UID project, called Aadhar, aims to give every Indian resident
a unique identity number.
The cabinet committee also approved additional expenditure of
Rs.5,000 crore for the project. The UIDAI authority will continue
enrolling people in 16 states and union territories while the home
ministry-led National Population Register will do the job in other
states.
The UIDAI and the NPR will collect the data without duplication
and the process of enrolment will be complete by June 2013,
according to the decision taken at the meeting.
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