“Out of the target to allot unique identities to 600 million people by 2014, around 100 million will be covered in first (fiscal) year,” said an official of the project’s nodal agency Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), requesting anonymity.
The target for the programme, also known as Aadhaar, is possible as the authority is collaborating with national welfare schemes such as the rural job-guarantee programme and the public distribution system, as well as with state governments, to enroll existing beneficiaries in its database, the official said.
Though the project is simple operationally, “the complexity arises from its size and scale”, said Sunil R. Chandiramani, national director, advisory services, Ernst and Young, who is also programme director of Aadhaar. “There is a very detailed granular level planning going on so that the project has a smooth run.”
In June, Aadhaar signed an agreement with Life Insurance Corp. of India to enroll its 2.1 billion customers for the project. “The registrar general of India, which is also collecting biometrics of citizens along with basic demographic details for Census 2011, will be our biggest partner,” the UIDAI official said.
Aadhaar partners will get Rs50 for enrolling a person into the database, he added. The UIDAI has been allocated around Rs1,900 crore for 2010-11. It will likely spend about Rs500 crore to register 100 million people.
“The pilots Aadhaar is doing in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka to gather samples along with their partnership with this year’s Census shows good signs of progress,” said Praveen Bhadada, engagement manager, Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd, who tracks e-governance projects in India.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Surabhi Agarwal
Quelle/Source: Livemint, 06.07.2010
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