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 ििििष पहचान पाििकरण), or the UIDAI,

 IS an agency of the Government of India responsible

for implementing the envisioned
Multipurpose National Identity Card or Unique Identific
project in India.
 Unique Identification Authority of
India
भारतीय ििििष पहचान पाििकरण
Agency overview
Formed February 2009
Jurisdiction
Government of India (Union

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
 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]