SEMINAR BY

J.V.JAYASHIRI
SVCCAM
 to keep a check on infiltrators, particularly if
illegal immigrants acquire PoIs and PoAs from
intermediaries and mingle with common
Indians.

 curbing illegal immigration has been one of

the main motives of the government in
planning a unique ID (UID) for every Indian.
 help in law and order enforcement,
implementing the quota system for public
distribution, defining social welfare
entitlements, financial inclusion and
improving overall efficiency of the
government administration.
 various government departments have been
issuing….

 Ration cards (serves as PoAs)

 PAN cards (not acceptable as PoAs)
 Passports and driving licences (both)
 EPICs (electoral photo identity cards)
or voter ID cards
'Acknowledging the existence of every single
citizen automatically compels the state to
improve the quality of services and immediately
give the citizen better access',

-wrote Nandan Nilekani in his book

'Imagining India.'
The Unique Identification Authority of India (
Hindi: भारतीय विशिष्ट पहचान प्राधिकरण), or the UIDAI,

IS an agency of the Government of India responsible

for implementing the envisioned
Multipurpose National Identity Card or Unique Ident
ification card (UID Card)
project in India.
 Unique Identification Authority of India
भारतीय विशिष्ट पहचान प्राधिकरण
Agency overview
Formed February 2009
Jurisdiction
Government of India (Union
Government)

Headquarters New Delhi

Agency executive Nandan Nilekani, Chairman
It was established in February 2009, and will own
and operate the Unique Identification Number
database.

A unique number to all Indians, but not smart

cards.

The authority would provide a database of

residents containing very simple data in
biometrics.
Nandan Nilekani, a former co-chairman of
Infosys Technologies, was appointed as the
first Chairman of the authority in June 2009.

R.S Sharma, an IAS Officer of Jharkhand

Government cadre has been appointed as the
Director General and Mission Director of the
Authority.
 Nandan Nilekani, co-Chairman, Infosys
Technologies Ltd, the country’s second
largest software company,

Nilekani,54, was appointed as the head of

the ID project by the UPA Government.
He was appointed the chairperson(with cabinet
minister rank and status).
 Mr.Nilekani has been chosen to head
the authority considering that the
project will be based on various tools
and techniques of Information
Technology and there will be need to
keep updating the system.
 “IT is an important ministry for carrying out the
project. He met Mr A.Raja to seek his co-operation ,”

The UID card will eliminate the need for the

existing ID cards like an electoral card, ration card,
driving license, passport and PAN card as the
identification cards issued under the scheme will
carry all the required details including the biometric
details of every Indian citizen.
 Mr. Nilekani met Petroleum and Natural Gas
Minister Murli deora,
*co-operation..
- Income Tax and state fuel retailers
-service 110 million LPG customers.
- data of PAN card applicants available with the
Income Tax Department.
The huge database with oil marketing companies
would be useful in covering a large part of the
population,
 linked to agencies such as the Election
Commission of India and the Income Tax
Department..
 In addition, it will be used for..

providing services under government

schemes such as the public distribution system,
and the National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme for families living below the poverty line. It
will also be used for delivering financial and
other assistance to the needy.
 Department of posts (DoP), with its network of over
150,000 offices can play a vital role in information
collection,
-delivery of ID cards, and for validation of address
change requests.

 The risk of data corruption, unauthorised access,

commercial exploitation of the database can be
minimised by limiting the UID related data collection,
not linking this database to any other databases for
banking, education, public distribution and so on.
 given the limited space, UID cards can probably
display information printed in say English,
Hindi and one more local language. But such
cards issued in one state may not make much
sense in the interiors of other states.

 Also, cards may get spoiled, misplaced, lost or

stolen .
 “We will have a very simple database, which
provides biometric and demographic identity
details like name, number, date of birth, very
basic things,” he said. Various government
departments might use the database for
different purposes.
 The Union Labor Ministry has offered its verified
Employment Provident Fund (EPFO) database of
42 million citizens as the first database to be
integrated into the unique ID system.
 One estimate of the cost to completely roll-
out National IDs to all Indian residents above
the age of 18 has been placed at Rs 150,000
crore (US$ 30.9 billion).

 A sum of Rs. 100 crore (US$ 20.6 million) was

approved in the 2009-2010 union budget to
fund the agency for its first year of existence.
 Initial estimates project that the initiative will
create 100,000 new jobs in the country,

 Mr. Nilekani noted that his first task would be

to set up a team by picking up the best talent
available from the government as well as the
private sector to prepare the residents’
database.

 business opportunities worth Rs 6,500 crore

(US$ 1.34 billion) in the first phase.[8]