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    • Agencies Tags : Nandan Nilekani, Manmohan Singh, Unique Identification Authority of India Posted: Thursday , Jun 25, 2009 at 1420 hrs
    Nandan Nilekani
    Nilekani invited by the PM to head UIA.

    In order to do so efficiently, effectively and economically, a comprehensive system of unique identity had been worked out, he had added.

    The Government also plans to set up state units of UIDAI, headed by state UID Commissioners.

    Earlier, an Empowered Group of Ministers had approved setting up UIDAI with an initial core team in November 2008.

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    Retired By: Karunambaran A | 07-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward I imagine a day when every Indian or for that matter everybody on earth is implanted on the body a micro chip UID just like the one now used to Identify Tigers and Elephants.Together with an online Database of citizens and a Microchip Reader it would help the concerned authorities identifying anybody in situations where it could be difficult otherwise. No confusion to determine whether one is Indian or Pakistani. It could simplify the Passport, Visa issuing and verification process.
    Whose activities need to be monitored first ?By: CK Raju, Thrissur | 30-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward To declare greatness of an event without inviting a public debate is indeed extreme callousness on part of the government. The search for greater control over citizens have always been there with all governments, even if it meant going against the spirit of the constitution where "will of the citizens" is held supreme. The constitutional spirit literally translates into a situation where, instead of citizens being issued with UIDs for the purpose of monitoring by the government, it should be the other way around. Every government official and representative should be issued with a universal ID, through which their engagements and actions are transparent enough to be tracked by the citizens. The cost of such a massive electronification should also be borne from the personal expenses of the officials, and not from the public exchequer's coffin. More than that, the cost of individual tracking official by any citizen, also should be borne out of the same expenses. If at a nation's level, its the people running the state who should be tracked, at a global level this translates into tracking all the activities of globally-wired and globally-enabled corporates and people at their helm of affairs. In the contemporary era, where national governments are virtually puppets of global corporates, it is all the more important to have such a tracking facility. Needless to say, the cost of such a global tracking mechanism should be borne out of corporate funds. Lastly, since its the corporates and the government machinery that is wanted most for tracking and monitoring purpose, the authority for deciding the design of the mechanism and its implementation cannot be with any of beneficiaries of either corporates or government machinery - it should be vested with public bodies of citizens who have nothing to do with these institutions.
    Unique ID is not enoughBy: uday yadav | 28-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Unique ID card is foolish idea. How we are going to prevent the poor person from mortgaging it? At tehsil level of every district, thousands of these Unique IDs will be mortgaged in the hands of goons and govt. employees.Unique identity is not enough.Identity must be Permanent, Inseparable and Unchanging also. Today’s biometric can’t give such identity to 1 billion Indians. Does the chairman of UIDAI Nilekani know this?
    As PMBy: Indi | 26-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Hope Nilekani becomes PM of India one day and replaces prospective PM's like fake gandhis and there servants.
    CEO MRUTYUNJAI KENYABy: DURGA RAMESH PONIO | 26-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward NILAKENI IS LOVED ENORMOUSLY FOR TRUE LOVE,DEDICATION IN ANY ROLE PLAYED.ALL THE BEST LUCK FOR TRUE TEACHER IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY.I WISH I WAS NILAKENI.
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