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2388 - Phase II of NPR project begins - The Hindu

2012-02-17T16:10:00.000+11:00

TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL » TAMIL NADUPUDUCHERRY, February 16, 2012 Chief Minister N. Rangasamy participated in the biometric data collection for the National Population Register here on Wednesday. The second phase of the NPR project, which is under the control of the Director of Census Operation, began on Wednesday, with Mr. Rangasamy and his family members entering their details

2387 - Food security Bill will benefit multinational corporations and hurt genuine traders - Economic Times

2012-02-17T15:52:00.000+11:00

Tejinder Narang, ET Bureau Feb 2, 2012, 05.01AM IST The charter of the proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB) is reminiscent of the socialistic era from the 1960s through the 1980s where the state decided how much a person needed and at what price that should be made available, irrespective of the cost of production. That model of nationalisation of grain trade

2386 - UIDs will help in getting LPG, phone connections: Nilekani - IBN Live

2012-02-17T14:25:00.000+11:00

India | Posted on Feb 16, 2012 at 07:39pm IST Mumbai: The Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) has begun two-pilot projects that would allow public sector oil marketers to make LPG transfers as well as getting mobile connectivity easier and transparent for consumers, its chairman Nandan Nilekani said on Thursday. "We are running a pilot programme in Mysore using the Aadhar

2385 - Soon, you’ll be able to buy SIM cards using Aadhar - First Post India

2012-02-16T22:07:00.000+11:00

Rajanya Bose 16th Feb 2012 Aadhaar, or the unique identification (UID) number project, is expected to be used across a variety of industries in the near future, which should reinforce the acceptability of the UID, said Nandan Nilekani, the man who is almost single handedly taking the ambitious project forward, at the ongoing India Leadership Forum in Mumbai. The forum is hosted by Nasscom.

2384 - UIDAI next focus on services and applications - Business Standard

2012-02-16T22:02:00.000+11:00

BS Reporter / Mumbai Feb 16, 2012, 12:41 IST Having enrolled 200 million Indian citizens for Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is now taking the initial steps to the services route. UIDAI chairperson Nandan Nilekani said that they have started two pilots that will allow the oil industry to bring in transparency in LPG transfer and the use of

2383 - It's a “six-week break” for Aadhaar enrolments - The Hindu

2012-02-16T21:58:00.000+11:00

BANGALORE, February 16, 2012 DEEPA KURUP Internal committee to “thoroughly review” existing process Weeks after the Union Cabinet decided that the task of collecting biometric and demographic data of residents would be shared by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the National Population Register, Aadhar enrolments across the country have been

2382 - Nandan Nilekani on UID controversy - Business Today

2012-02-16T21:52:00.000+11:00

Shweta Punj February 14, 2012 UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani spoke with Business Today on the Aadhaar project in November 2011 and January 2012. Excerpts: How are you reacting to all the controversies surrounding the UID project?The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance finds the UID project to be "conceptualised with no clarity" and "directionless". The big issue

2381 - Aadhaar can't fix all that ails PDS: Abhijit Sen - THE HINDU

2012-02-13T16:33:00.000+11:00

BANGALORE, February 12, 2012 Prof. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission, during the Dr. Zakir Hussain lecture series at St. John’s Auditorium premises, Koramangala, in Bangalore on Feb 11, 2012. Photo: K. Murali Kumar The argument that too many people are coming forward to claim benefits is flawed'Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project, cannot “fix” all that is

2380 - Pranab banks on Aadhar to reform public distribution system -

2012-02-09T17:22:00.000+11:00

08 February 2012 Reforming the delivery mechanism is key to an effective, transparent and inclusive public distribution system in the country and the main challenge before the PDS today is reaching foodgrains to the actual beneficiaries without leakages and diversion en route to the grass-root level, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said today.Digitising the database of

2379 - Pranab 'losing sleep' over rising subsidy bills - IBN Live

2012-02-09T17:19:00.000+11:00

Budget 2012 | Posted on Feb 08, 2012 at 05:31pm IST New Delhi: A worried Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he is losing sleep over the rising subsidy bills, notably on food, fertiliser and petroleum products. "As finance minister when I think of the enormity of the subsidies to be provided, I lose my sleep," Mukherjee said in New Delhi at a conference to discuss

2378 - Text of Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee’s address at the Conference on Public Distribution System - PIB GOI

2012-02-09T17:14:00.000+11:00

Text of Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee’s address at the Conference on Public Distribution System Following is the text of the speech delivered by Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the Public Distribution System (PDS) Conference, here today. “I am very happy to be here today to inaugurate this conference with its focus on improving public distribution

2377 - Pranab backs Nilekani on PDS reforms - TOI

2012-02-09T17:12:00.000+11:00

Nitin Sethi, TNN | Feb 9, 2012, 03.26AM IST NEW DELHI: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee took on the food ministry and publicly backed UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani's proposal to set up a new independent agency manned by professionals to computerise the public distribution system (PDS) as part of the reforms agenda and use the Aadhaar number as a base for the changes. Mukherjee

2376 - Aadhaar-based subsidy outgo schedule likely - Rediff

2012-02-09T17:09:00.000+11:00

Last updated on: February 08, 2012 16:01 IST Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ] is set to outline a schedule for Aadhaar-based entitlements and cash disbursal of subsidies in the coming budget. The Unique Identifiaction Authority of India [ Images ] is expediting creation of platforms for implementing the model, likely to include coverage of the Public Distribution

2375 - Jharkhand UID success on national stage - Hindustan Times

2012-02-09T17:04:00.000+11:00

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan TimesNew Delhi, February 08, 2012 The Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is set to replicate, at the national level, Jharkhand's success in disbursing money to people at their doorsteps.On Tuesday, the UIDAI launched its unique identification or Aadhaar-based platform to linkpublic entitlements to Aadhaar-linked bank

2374 - UIDAI Launches Web Based Authentication Interface For Aadhaar - Media Nama

2012-02-09T16:59:00.000+11:00

By Anupam Saxena on Feb 8th, 2012 The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has rolled out a web interface for online authentication of Aadhaar numbers, reports The Economic Times. The interface would allow banks, telecom companies and government departments to authenticate an Indian resident on the basis of his Aadhaar number or UID, in accordance with KYC norms and

2373 - Aadhaar is smarter than smart cards: Sharma - Economic Times

2012-02-09T16:55:00.000+11:00

8 FEB, 2012, 10.14PM IST, PTI RANCHI: Aadhaar is smarter than smart cards as anyone could use it as identity proof to get a telephone connection or open a bank account, besides being a labour-friendly authentication 12-digit number, a senior UIAI official said here today. Speaking at an international conference here, Unique Identification Authority of India's Director General R

2372 - Aakash to get 100 p.c. desi; might power Aadhaar - COIL

2012-02-09T16:50:00.000+11:00

220 mn students to get low-cost tablet free! Aakash to get 100 p.c. desi; might power Aadhaar If Union Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal stands by his words, it might be reality soonCMN Correspondent Tuesday, February 07, 2012 BANGALORE, INDIA: Union Minister for Communications and IT Kapil Sibal had some great news for India to rejoice on Monday. One, that production of

2371 - Montek: Pilots to pave way for Aadhaar-based models - Business Standard

2012-02-09T16:43:00.000+11:00

BS Reporter / Feb 08, 2012, 00:29 IST Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chaiman of the Planning Commission, told Business Standard the success of pilot projcts to test its ideas would pave way for Aadhar-based entitlements and subsidy disbursal. “When the pilots work, politicians and people running governments will see what the experiment is doing,” he said. Ahluwalia

2370 - Identity card crisis - Deccan Herald

2012-02-09T09:50:00.000+11:00

Wednesday 8 February 2012News updated at 2:32 AM IST N N Bala,Feb 09, 2012 :No one has bothered to compare the photo with my present avatar. In no other country one would be carrying so many identity cards as we do. Take my example. Being a senior citizen and an ex serviceman, my bag has the following cards, each one carrying my photo: Pan card, election ID card , ex serviceman

2369 - UIDAI to refresh data collection process - ZEE News

2012-02-09T00:52:00.000+11:00

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 19:55 New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will be refreshing its data collection process by including the best finger detection and multiple-try method in the second phase of enrolment in April, the agency's chairman Nandan Nilekani said Tuesday. "We have got the mandate to add another 400 million people. So

2368 - UIDAI to refresh data collection process in second phase - Two Circles Net

2012-02-09T00:49:00.000+11:00

Submitted by admin4 on 7 February 2012 - 5:51pmBy IANS, New Delhi : The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will be refreshing its data collection process by including the best finger detection and multiple-try method in the second phase of enrolment in April, the agency's chairman Nandan Nilekani said Tuesday. "We have got the mandate to add another 400 million people. So

2367 - UIDAI to add 400 million people in second phase - India Today

2012-02-08T12:41:00.000+11:00

The UIDAI has collected data for 20 crore people in the first phase. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will be refreshing its data collection process by including the best finger detection and multiple-try method in the second phase of enrolment in April, the agency's chairman Nandan Nilekani said on Tuesday. "We have got the mandate to add another 400 million people.

2366 - UIDAI row: Nandan Nilekani quit threat forced PM to step in - India Today

2012-02-08T12:33:00.000+11:00

UIDAI row: Nandan Nilekani quit threat forced PM to step in A resignation threat by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman Nandan Nilekani made Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step in to end the feud between the UIDAI and the National Population Registry (NPR) last week. Highly-placed government sources have revealed that Nilekani contended that since UIDAI had

2365 - Facebook is a surveillance engine, not friend: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation - Economic Times

2012-02-08T12:28:00.000+11:00

7 FEB, 2012, 10.33AM IST, SRIRAM SRINIVASAN & SANGEETHA KANDAVEL,ET BUREAU "You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" a volunteer asks before leading us to meet Richard Stallman, the man who fights for free software day in and out. One, don't use the term Open Source to mean free software. Two, don't say Linux but say GNU/Linux. Dr Stallman, who

2364 - 7000 Aadhaar cards remain undelivered, addresses untraced - TOI

2012-02-08T12:10:00.000+11:00

TNN | Feb 7, 2012, 06.25PM IST KARWAR: The 'untraced' addresses of the Aadhaar card holders in Coastal taluks of Uttara Kannada district has landed the postal authorities in a piquant situation. About 7,000 Aadhaar cards are lying in the various post offices in Karwar, Ankola, Kumta Honnavar and Bhatkal taluk because the addresses were not traced. This has led to the suspicion

2363 - PM saves Aadhaar for his image, but can’t stop duplication - Deccan Herald

2012-02-08T12:06:00.000+11:00

Ajith Athrady,Feb 06, 2012, DHNS: Amidst sharp differences between the Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Union home ministry over the collection of biometric details of resident Indians, prime minister Manmohan Singh has tried to resolve the tussle to some extent. But even after the clumsy patch-up exercise, several questions remain

2362 - Nilekani to address PDS reform concerns - Business Standard

2012-02-08T11:54:00.001+11:00

BS Reporter / New Delhi Feb 07, 2012, 00:11 IST Nandan Nilekan, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) i is expected to make a presentation to state food ministers on the benefits of a modernised public distribution system (PDS) and how Aadhar numbers can help in this modernisation, during a two-day conference starting on Wednesday. Officials said Nilekani’s

2361 - Our identity in a catch-22 cycle - Deccan Chronicle

2012-02-08T11:38:00.003+11:00

February 5, 2012How do you prove who you are? This is a question that can be troubling most times, but is becoming more and more bothersome now. As India marries new systems with hardened and calcified bureaucratic mindsets, trying to prove one’s identity is not merely an abstract, philosophical idea but a daily, inconvenient reality that thousands, even hundreds of thousands face all the time.

2360 - UIDAI shortlists TCS, HCL Infosystems for R2,000-cr service provider contract - Financial Express

2012-02-08T11:30:00.002+11:00

UIDAI shortlists TCS, HCL Infosystems for R2,000-cr service provider contract Kirtika Suneja Posted online: 2012-02-07 03:27:46+05:30 New Delhi The country’s largest information technology (IT) outsourcing deal will soon see the light of day with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) having shortlisted Tata Consultancy Services and HCL Infosystems for the R2,000-crore managed

2359 - UIDAI vendors complain of non-payment since 16 months - Economic Times

2012-02-07T10:14:00.000+11:00

UIDAI vendors complain of non-payment since 16 months 7 FEB, 2012, 03.13AM IST, HARSIMRAN JULKA,ET BUREAU NEW DELHI: After battling external conflicts, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is now plagued with its internal problems as IT vendors are complaining of non-payment for over 16 months for the Aadhaar numbers being issued. The firms are also

2358 - UID: Due to the technology challenges of speed and scale, Aadhaar is an object of attention - Economic Times

2012-02-07T09:58:00.000+11:00

UID: Due to the technology challenges of speed and scale, Aadhaar is an object of attention 7 FEB, 2012, 02.11AM IST, JAYADEVAN PK,ET BUREAU BANGALORE: In a Bangalore suburb that is its nerve centre, the Aadhaar project, which aims to give over 1.2 billion Indians a unique ID number, is proving in many respects to be another example of a typically Indian trait - jugaad

2357 - Sibal proposes to use Aakash, Aadhaar in tandem to fight graft - Business Line

2012-02-07T09:47:00.001+11:00

Sibal proposes to use Aakash, Aadhaar in tandem to fight graft OUR BUREAU Mr Kapil Sibal and the Akash tablet BANGALORE, FEB 6: In order to fight corruption and eliminate middlemen, the Union Cabinet Minister for HRD, Communications and IT, Mr Kapil Sibal, said that the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar and the Aakash tablet could be used together.

2356 - Budget 2012: Agenda for banking sector this year

2012-02-06T21:19:00.000+11:00

Budget 2012: Agenda for banking sector this year 6 FEB, 2012, 03.30AM IST MS Sriram Independent researcher and consultant The government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is half done on financial inclusion. More branches are being opened. Four elements of inclusion have also been articulated: a basic bank account with an overdraft facility; entrepreneurial credit on

2355 - Food ministry shoots down UID role in PDS reforms - TOI

2012-02-06T20:32:00.000+11:00

Nitin SethiNitin Sethi, TNN | Feb 6, 2012, 04.00AM IST NEW DELHI: Nandan Nilekani's UID or Aadhar has been snubbed again, this time by the food and public distribution ministry. The ministry has ignored the Nilekani task force report making UID central to information technology reforms in the public distribution system and has instead proposed its own system through the National Informatics

2354 - Manmohan Singh: 'We are framing a law for regulation of public procurement' - Business Standard

2012-02-06T01:20:00.000+11:00

Excerpts from Prime Minister's speech to Chief Secretaries of states on Feb 3 Manmohan Singh / Feb 05, 2012, 00:12 IST We live in uncertain times and no one knows this better than the Chief Secretaries of States. As a country, we face a whole range of challenges in diverse areas. In my message to the nation on the eve of the New Year, I had grouped these challenges into five broad categories.

2353 - Ratan Lal Nath demands CBI inquiry into Aadhar scheme - Money Control

2012-02-06T01:12:00.000+11:00

Published on Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 20:35 | Source : PT The opposition Congress in Tripura today threatened to launch a state wide campaign if a CBI inquiry is not ordered to unearth alleged irregularities in Aadhaar (Unique Identity Authority of India) scheme implementation in the state. Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly and senior Congress leader Ratan Lal Nath alleged that

2352 - Aadhaar-style payment unveiled in Ramgarh - TOI

2012-02-06T01:07:00.000+11:00

Jaideep Deogharia, TNN Feb 4, 2012, 07.28AM IST RANCHI: Having successfully experimented with the remittance of MGNREGA wages to labourers through Aadhaar payment bridge (APB) from Hazaribag, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is all set to launch the APB scheme in Ramgarh in the presence of the director general UIDAI, R S Sharma, on Wednesday. The banks will be using

2351 - Dividing UID work not best of options - The Asian Age

2012-02-06T00:54:00.000+11:00

Jan 29, 2012 The discord between the Union home ministry (under which is run the National Population Register) and the Planning Commission (under whose administrative supervision comes the Unique Identity Authority of India, or UIDAI) over which of the two outfits should issue the UID (unique identity) number based on biometric information of individuals — that relates to the iris and

2350 - Nilekani gets go-ahead to enrol 40 crore more - News Bullet

2012-02-06T00:50:00.000+11:00

Nishit DholabhaiSaturday, 28 January 2012 08:51 New Delhi: The Centre on Friday extended the mandate of the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India to cover 40 crore more residents, ignoring objections attributed to home minister P Chidambaram over collection of biometric data by a non-government agency. The UID authority has “promised to review” procedures and

2349 - Nilekani, PC will share ID card cake - Deccan Herald

2012-02-06T00:44:00.000+11:00

\New Delhi, Jan 27, 2012, DHNS:PM decrees each would collect data of 60 cr peopleIn a bid to strike a compromise in the ‘turf war’ between Union home ministry and the Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday allowed both to capture biometric details of half each of the country’s population of 120 crore. The prime minister, who

2348 - Nilekani-Chidambaram tussle truce; both projects to go on simultaneously - News Track India

2012-02-06T00:41:00.000+11:00

New Delhi, Sat, 28 Jan 2012 The ongoing tussle between home ministry and planning commission has been resolved on Friday in a joint meeting of Home Minister P Chidambaram, Planning Commission Vice President Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chairman of Unique Identity Authority of India (UID) Nandan Nilekani convened on PIB office. In this meeting, a compromised formula has been sorted out in which

2347 - Truce in battle of biometrics and identity - Indian Express

2012-02-06T00:33:00.001+11:00

Anubhuti Vishnoi : New Delhi, Sat Jan 28 2012, 02:07 hrs The government today approved a compromise formula to end the battle of biometrics between the ministry of home affairs and UIDAI. Both the Unique Identification Authority of India and the ministry’s National Population Register (NPR) project will now continue to collect biometrics in the states where they are operating, and accept each

2346 - Govt salvages UID, nod to cover all 1.2bn Indians - TOI

2012-02-06T00:28:00.000+11:00

Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN Jan 28, 2012, 04.09AM IST NEW DELHI: All 1.2 billion residents of the country should have unique identity numbers by June, 2013, the Union Cabinet decided on Friday seeking to cap a fractious internal debate on which agency should record and store biometric data.The Cabinet plumped for a complete rollout of the ambitious scheme, aiming to plug loopholes in

2345- UIDAI: Duplication will be avoided, says Nilekani - IBN Live

2012-02-06T00:26:00.000+11:00

2344 - Govt untangles UID knots - Hindustan Times

2012-02-06T00:20:00.000+11:00

Aloke Tikku, Hindustan TimesNew Delhi, January 27, 2012 A cabinet panel headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday sealed the compromise over expansion of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to minimise duplication of effort and resources with the home ministry-driven National Population Register. The decision to empower the UIDAI to enrol a total of 60 crore

2343 - Aadhaar, NPR and the art of compromise - Raju Rajagopal - Live Mint

2012-02-05T04:06:00.000+11:00

Posted: Thu, Feb 2 2012. 11:58 PM IST Whichever way one looks at it, the UIDAI-NPR compromise could spell serious trouble for the enrolment of the ID-less The compromise between Nandan Nilekani and P. Chidambaram on biometric enrolments, after months of uncertainty over the future of Aadhaar, has been cautiously welcomed by the media. The Unique Identification Authority of India (

2342 - Lost  identity - The Week-Manorama online

2012-02-05T03:55:00.000+11:00

By Prabha Jagannathan Story Dated: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 22:49 hrs IST In the hurry to meet targets, UIDAI is missing its goals The division among economists and social activists over whether the Unique Identity (UID) programme, or Aadhaar, will streamline the government's social sector and welfare programme roadmap or

2341 - UID, NPR and all that Jazz - Jaimon Joseph - IBN Live

2012-02-05T03:48:00.000+11:00

Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 16 : 17UID, NPR and all that JazzSome three months ago, my wife, her sister and their parents drove seven odd kilometers from where we live, to register for a Universal Identity or UID number. They've all got one now. Strangely, my wife got it about a month after the rest of the family did, even though they'd all enrolled together. I was working that day, so

2340 - India's ID plan: An end to its inept bureaucracy or an Orwellian nightmare? - The National

2012-02-05T03:25:00.000+11:00

Eric Randolph Feb 1, 2012 NEW DELHI // A plan to provide each of India's 1.2 billion citizens with a unique identification number has been praised as an essential programme to impose some efficiency on India's infamously inept bureaucracy. But its opponents have said it is ripe for abuse.

2339 - Prof Ramakumar TISS - Did you know your finger prints are not UNIQUE ? - You Tube

2012-02-05T03:13:00.001+11:00

2338 - UID Aadhar: Why Aadhar needs to succeed - IBN Live

2012-02-05T03:08:00.000+11:00

SRIRAM BALASUBRAMANIAM Tuesday , January 31, 2012 at 12 : 13 The Aadhar debate has been settled for now. With an consensus emerging on the biometric data, there seems to be an agreement with the establishment on the way forward. While the recent criticism on Aadhar has been forthcoming, as a common apolitical citizen, I feel that Aadhar has to succeed and the success of it has important

2337 - Data and State - Telegraph India

2012-02-05T03:04:00.000+11:00

DATA AND STATE There cannot be too much of a good thing. Thus, some amount of duplication between two projects should not lead

2336 - Ireland looks to cash in on India connect - Economic Times

2012-02-05T02:56:00.000+11:00

30 Jan, 2012, 10.59AM IST, The writer has posted comments on this article Surendra SinghSurendra Singh,TNN & Agencies DUBLIN: Did you know that an Irish company is behind India's biggest identity card programme - Aadhaar? Daon, a global company founded by an Irish enterpreneur, is providing India its biometric identity software for the UIDAI project. Not many Indians talk about

2335 - Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"

2012-02-05T02:50:00.000+11:00

Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill" Posted by Natasha Vaz at Jan 28, 2012 05:30 PM | Permalink Filed under: Freedom of Speech

2334 - Identity, please - TOI

2012-02-05T02:39:00.000+11:00

Jan 30, 2012, 12.00AM IST The compromise hammered out between the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the home ministry - apportioning collecting biometric data on 600 million of India's 1.2 billion residents to each - looks mechanical and unimaginative. Nevertheless it's welcome if it can restart the Aadhaar process. The delay in thrashing out the dispute has been rather

2333 - The Aadhar compromise - Free Express Journal

2012-02-05T02:33:00.000+11:00

India Jan 30, 2012 The compromise on the collection of biometric information of citizens has only helped to expose the flaws in the two parallel programs run by the Government at great public expense. Apparently, the Prime Minister sat down both Home Minister P Chidambaram and Nandan Nilekani, the chief of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and forced a solution. Though both

2332- Digital fortress, ‘demilitarised zone’ at UIDAI data centre - Express India

2012-02-05T02:18:00.000+11:00

Saritha RaiPosted: Jan 29, 2012 at 2301 hrs IST Bangalore Inside a non-descript building in the eastern part of Bangalore stands a server farm, a cluster of computers. It is a building without a sign and visitors are strictly forbidden. In this building sits the data centre of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Location of the centre: “somewhere in

2331 - UID project: Issues like privacy, denial of citisenship remain to be sorted out - Economic Times

2012-02-05T02:08:00.001+11:00

ET Bureau Jan 30, 2012, 01.27AM IST It is welcome that the political leadership has sorted out the turf battle between the Unique Identity Authority and the National Population Register and allowed the Unique Identity Authority to proceed with capturing biometric data and issuance of unique numbers for 40 crore more residents. The authority has already completed the work for 20 crore

2330 - Government seems to be going too far to accommodate UIDAI - Dailymail.co.uk

2012-02-05T02:01:00.000+11:00

Last updated at 11:50 PM on 29th January 2012 We had commented on Friday about the Union government going in for a compromise on the dispute involving the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Home Ministry, over the collection of biometric data of residents in the country. Under this arrangement, the work is to be split between the UIDAI project and the Home Ministry's

2329 - BRP Bhaskar: Unique identity number game - The Gulf Today

2012-02-05T01:53:00.000+11:00

January 30, 2012 Exclusive to The Gulf Today The Indian government has decided to expand the scope of its ambitious programme to give each citizen a unique identity number, ignoring concerns voiced by civil society groups who fear misuse of the data gathered by the authorities. The 12-digit number is generated using a code, named Aadhar, and the individual’s identity is established by

2328 - Absurd trade-off - Deccan Herald

2012-02-05T01:45:00.000+11:00

Jan 30, 2012 : The reported compromise over the Aadhaar scheme between the Union home ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) may have ended the turf war between an agency which has major support within the government and an arm of the government, but may not answer all the questions raised by the scheme and the controversy over it. The

2327 - The Economist magazine sticks its nose into Indian politics, comes away with egg on its face - David Moss

2012-02-05T01:38:00.000+11:00

Sunday, 29 January 2012After 30 years of reading The Economist, you know what to expect. The correct answers to most questions are found by letting markets operate freely, as far as The Economist is concerned and politically, that rules out any system that pretends to be able to manage control the economy. The magazine is socially liberal. There's not a hint of racism in it, or sexism – "

2326 - Misuse Of Intelligence: Right To Dissent - By S.G.Vombatkere - Counter Currents

2012-02-05T01:29:00.000+11:00

Misuse Of Intelligence: Right To Dissent By S.G.Vombatkere 27 January, 2012 Countercurrents.org The national and state intelligence agencies have advised the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that “ some rights organisations ” that decry state violence are purposefully or at least effectively taking sides with Maoists and “ actively helping spread the

2325 - BJP takes up ID-card issue as poll plank - Northeast Indians

2012-02-05T01:13:00.000+11:00

Spl Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 14 – BJP’s new IT vision envisages according top priority to detect illegal migrants by re-jigging the UPA’s brainchild programme Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) to create a new authority, Citizenship Regulatory Authority of India (CRAI) by amending the Citizenship Act of 1955. The national ID plan is a key component of the Party’s IT

2324- Dividing UID work not best of options- Asian Age

2012-02-05T01:04:00.000+11:00

2323- Spawning identities in packets by Deepa Kurup - The Hindu

2012-02-05T00:58:00.000+11:00

Aadhaar’s coverage stands at 10 per cent of the Indian population, and UIDAI officials claim the number surpasses any other biometric database in the world. Aadhaar's Open architecture averts vendor lock-ins, reduces project costs The political tug-of-war over Aadhaar, the ambitious government project that seeks to create a biometric database of citizens across the country, appears to

2322 - Biometric data to be used in Goa elections - Express Buzz

2012-02-05T00:37:00.001+11:00

Biometric data to be used in Goa elections Suman K JhaExpress News ServiceLast Updated : 29 Jan 2012 10:13:35 AM IST NEW DELHI: Amid the UID row, now it is the turn of the Election Commission to jump on the biometric bandwagon. For the first time, all voters for the upcoming Assembly elections in Goa will have to register their thumb imprints at the polling booths. The EC officials say that

2321 - UID truce burden on taxpayers by Aman Sharma - Daily Mail UK

2012-02-05T00:33:00.000+11:00

By Aman SharmaLast updated at 2:06 AM on 29th January 2012 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have saved Rs6,000 crore by neatly dividing India into two for P. Chidambaram and Nandan Nilekani to share the biometric data collection pie. But the residents of one-half are in for a tough haul. Things will be especially cumbersome if you happen to live in the territory marked for Nilekani's

2320 - Chidu-Nandan truce: From unique ID to schizophrenic ID - First Post

2012-02-05T00:21:00.000+11:00

Chidu-Nandan truce: From unique ID to schizophrenic ID R Jagannathan Jan 28, 2012 “To you, my eldest son, I give you half the kingdom. And to you, my favourite son, I give you the other half. May you both rule wisely and in peace.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not quite use those words to sort out the tussle between Home Minister P Chidambaram and Unique Identity Authority of India (

2319 - It's a win-win model: Nandan Nilekani - Business Standard

2012-02-05T00:04:00.000+11:00

Interview with Chairman, UIDAI Santosh Tiwari / New Delhi Jan 28, 2012, 00:03 IST The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is now set to work with a renewed energy in providing Aadhar identification number to people, with the cabinet extending the authority’s mandate to enrol another 400 million people by June 2013. Chairman of UIDAI Nandan Nilekani spoke to Santosh

2318 - UIDAI's mandate expanded - The Hindu

2012-02-04T23:56:00.000+11:00

NEW DELHI, January 28, 2012 Special Correspondent Tussle ends, Nilekani to address Home Ministry's concerns In a bid to end the turf war between the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which comes under the Planning Commission, and the Home Ministry's National Population Register (NPR), a Cabinet Committee has worked out a compromise that will result in the biometric

2317 - The Nandan Nilekani wild card - OFFSTUMPED COMMENTARY ON INDIAN POLITICS -

2012-02-04T23:38:00.000+11:00

December 13, 2010 • 12:00 am Guess this ends all speculation on impending change http://j.mp/fd9ofY Blue Turban can rest easy unless there's more Radia to come. When Shekhar Gupta writes two Op-eds on the drift in the UPA it’s a signal of sorts. Before we get too carried away let us be clear this is not a “Dileep Padgaonkar” moment (for those who were not old enough, Dileep Padgaonkar

2316 - Nandan Nilekani's biometrics battle: Details of the truce - NDTV

2012-02-04T23:00:00.000+11:00

The Cabinet today has officially sanctioned the terms of a truce between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram. The two departments had been battling over the issue of biometrics - the right to scan India's eyes and fingerprints. Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/nandan-nilekanis-biometrics-battle-details-of-the-truce/222260&cp

2315 - True lies of biometric technology in Aadhaar enrolment - David Moss - Money Life

2012-02-04T22:37:00.000+11:00

January 27, 2012 01:24 PM David Moss Let’s ask the professors UIDAI cited in its latest report: Do you agree with UIDAI’s assessment of Aadhaar? Do you share their confidence in the project? Did UIDAI ask you in advance, before using your name for their marketing purposes? The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have been accused of making false claims about the

2314 - Nandan Nilekani's battle for biometrics ends with compromise - NDTV

2012-02-04T22:25:00.000+11:00

Sunil Prabhu, Updated: January 25, 2012 20:17 IST New Delhi: The battle over biometrics between Nandan Nilkani's department and the Home Ministry has ended in a compromise. At a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by senior ministers, Mr Nilekani, and Home Minister P Chidambram, it was resolved that the

2313 - MHA jittery over UIDAI mandate - DNA

2012-02-04T22:18:00.000+11:00

Published: Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012, 8:00 IST By Manan Kumar | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA The next cabinet meet on the unique identity project will have to deal with the Planning Commission’s note emphasising on extending the mandate of Nandan Nilekani’s Unique identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to use multi-registrars, including the National Population

2312 - Major loopholes in UID system mean unverified documents could slip through net - Daily Mail UK

2012-02-04T22:03:00.000+11:00

Major loopholes in UID system mean unverified documents could slip through net Last updated at 2:34 AM on 25th January 2012 The UPA government's prestigious initiative to provide a unique identification number to every Indian resident was meant to be robust enough to eliminate duplicate and fake

2311 - Aadhar is being consumed by turf wars : S.L. Rao - Telegraph India

2012-02-04T21:40:00.000+11:00

DIVERSION AHEAD - Aadhar is being consumed by turf wars Commentarao: S.L. Rao Mission unaccomplished The Indian bureaucracy and political class have repeatedly put roadblocks in the way of important changes because they impinge on their perceived turfs. A glaring example is the home ministry’s objections to the unique identification number project initiated by the Planning Commission.

2310 - Sad Reflection - The Hindu

2012-02-04T21:10:00.000+11:00

January 21, 2012 This refers to the report “Chidambaram takes UID turf war to Manmohan Singh” (Jan. 20). As a citizen, I am anguished to read that the UPA government, after spending Rs 672 crore of taxpayers' money on issuing a unique ID number to all, and making millions of citizens spend their valuable time and energy in visiting UIDAI centres, stand in long queues and furnish the

2309 - Truth vs Hype: Who Is Afraid Of Unique ID? - NDTV

2012-02-04T20:59:00.001+11:00

The Nandan Nilekani led- Unique ID project has enrolled more than 100 million Indians. They say this will give them not just an identity, but take India closer to a social revolution. And for a while, largely because of immense goodwill that Nandan Nilekani enjoyed, people ignored the voices of civil society groups that say UID violates privacy, or that it's going to replace subsidies with

2308 - UIDAI invades privacy, endangers security - Express Buzz

2012-02-04T20:23:00.000+11:00

In a letter to the prime minister, Union home minister P Chidambaram is reported to have demanded that the Planning Commission be instructed to bring a note to the Cabinet on the status of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) so that there is clarity over which agency — the Registrar-General of India (RGI) or the UIDAI — will carry on with the task of capturing the biometric data

2307 - Setting the record straight: The home ministry is not against UID - Hindustan Times

2012-02-04T19:43:00.000+11:00

Saturday, February 04, 2012 Hindustan Times January 20, 2012

2306 - The Curious Case of Whose Data is it Anyway? - Centre for Internet Sociaty

2012-02-04T19:36:00.000+11:00

Tactical Technology Collective and the Centre for Internet Society invite you to the second round of discussions of the Exposing Data Series at the CIS office in Bangalore on 24 January 2012. Siddharth Hande and Hapee de Groot will be speaking on this occasion. Like countless others, this title is a convenient adaptation of a 1972 play by Brian Clark, Whose Life is it Anyway?, a meditation on '

2305 - Anonymous hacks U.S. govt. sites after Megaupload shutdown - The Hindu

2012-02-04T19:26:00.000+11:00

The hacker group Anonymous said it launched its largest-ever online attack in retaliation for the U.S. government’s shutdown of one of the world’s largest file-sharing websites, Megaupload, for alleged copyright infringements. More than 5,000 of its members had collaborated to bring down the websites of the Justice Department, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording

2304 - Govt to spend Rs1 trillion to democratize information - Live Mint

2012-02-04T19:09:00.002+11:00

Posted: Thu, Jan 19 2012. 11:59 Funds will be used to provide broadband connectivity in villages, connect colleges over three years Prashant K. Nanda New Delhi: India will spend R 1 trillion over the next three years to “democratize information” through projects such as the National Knowledge Network (NKN) and the gram panchayat (village councils) network, Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime

2303 - Govt to draft law to give legal sanctity to UIDAI - TOI

2012-02-04T18:31:00.000+11:00

Mahendra K Singh, TNN Jan 19, 2012, 12.43AM IST NEW DELHI: The Centre has taken a concrete step to empower the IT czar Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), thanks to its bid to draft a fresh legislation to give legal sanctity to the Authority.Sources said that the draft to legalize UIDAI is at a conceptualization stage, and once the legislation gets

2302 - Hackers cripple more Israeli web sites- The H Security

2012-02-04T18:12:00.000+11:00

On Monday, unknown hackers brought down further important Israeli web sites. Media outlets in Israel have reported that the site of Israel's stock exchange, as well as those of the national El Al airline and the First International Bank of Israel (FIBI), became temporarily unavailable. Yuli Edelstein, the Information and Diaspora Minister of Israel, called the hacker attacks a "serious threat to

2301 - Chaos reigns at UID centre at Arya Samaj -by Rajiv Kakria ...... AADHAR not as Useful or Fool Proof as made out to be.-

2012-02-04T01:36:00.000+11:00

Chaos reigns at UID centre at Arya Samaj ...... AADHAR not as Useful or Fool Proof as made out to be.-by Rajiv Kakria With much fanfare UID camp was opened at Arya Samaj Mandir for GK residents. People had high hopes of a smooth system, what with the hype of a Rs. 20,000/- crore budget and Nandan Nelikani’s brainchild. Many people rushed to the centre to find total mismanagement and chaos ....

2300 - UID Glitch hits senior citizens - Hindustan Times

2012-02-04T01:31:00.000+11:00

2299 - UID: A uniquely nonsensical debate - Live Mint

2012-02-04T01:26:00.000+11:00

Posted: Mon, Jan 16 2012. 3:13 PM IST There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question the logic of the UID program but many recent criticisms make little sense Doug Johnson and Suvojit Chattopadhyay UID is taking heat from both the right and left these days. On the left, activists claim that the program is overly invasive and restrictive. From the right, critics within the government make

2298 - Useful idiots at the Economist - by David Moss

2012-02-04T01:16:00.001+11:00

Two articles in this week's Economist, The magic number and Reform by numbers. One response among many: From the very start, we know that this article of the Economist's must be wrong. Next door to India, Pakistan's NADRA has been issuing biometric ID for over 10 years and that hasn't led to the sunny benefits predicted by the Economist. Using the brilliant Indians abroad, rather than the

2297 - Sharma takes stock of UID projects in State - Pioneer

2012-02-04T01:10:00.000+11:00

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 23:12 Pioneer News Service | Ranchi RS Sharma, Director General of the Unique ID Authority of India arrived in Ranchi on Wednesday on a three-day visit of Jharkhand to take stock of pilot project of payment of MNREGA wages in Jharkhand through UID number. In the afternoon he held a review meeting with assistant DG Arvind Prasad, head of Jharkhand zone Sujata

2296 - Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents - Activist Post

2012-02-04T01:05:00.000+11:00

Friday, January 13, 2012 Brandon Turbeville Activist Post Over the past few months, I have written several articles dealing with the coming cashless society and the developing technological control grid. I also have written about the surge of government attempts to gain access to and force the use of biometric data for the purposes of identification, tracking, tracing, and surveillance.

2295 - To convince people for polio vaccination, he helps them get AADHAR - UNMID

2012-02-03T18:39:00.001+11:00

Friday January 13, 2012 05:25:15 PM, ummid.com Staff Reporter Malegaon: For once, the Malegaonians - supposedly the most religious people in Maharashtra, were reluctant to allow polio vaccines to their children. They relented a bit after the government, backed by the campaign run by local clerics, reassured them about its need and advantages. Malegaon’s Health Officer however is volunteering a

2294 - ನಿಲೇಕಣಿ ಕಾರ್ಡಿಗೆ ಮುಂದಿನ ವಾರ ಏನಾಗುತ್ತೋ?

2012-02-03T18:24:00.002+11:00

http://kannada.oneindia.in/news/2012/01/12/india-decision-on-nilekani-adhar-number-next-week-aid0135.html ನಿಲೇಕಣಿ ಕಾರ್ಡಿಗೆ ಮುಂದಿನ ವಾರ ಏನಾಗುತ್ತೋ? ಗುರುವಾರ, ಜನವರಿ 12, 2012, 13:53 [IST] ನಿಮ್ಮ ಇನ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ನೊಳಗೆ ಬಿಸಿಬಿಸಿ ಸುದ್ದಿ ನವದೆಹಲಿ, ಜ.12: ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ ನಂದನ್ ನಿಲೇಕಣಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಗುರುತು ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ (ಯುಐಡಿ) ಯೋಜನೆ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಗೃಹ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯ ಹಾಗೂ ಯೋಜನಾ ಆಯೋಗಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಭಿನ್ನಾಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳು ತಾಕಲಾಡುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಇದನ್ನು

2293 - NGO questions people's privacy in UID scheme - TOI

2012-02-03T18:17:00.000+11:00

RANCHI: Taking a leaf out of the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on finance (SCF) that raised objections on the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, Delhi-based NGOs have called upon the Jharkhand government to stay the execution of UID projects in the state. Citing excerpts from the recommendations of the SCF, headed by BJP MP Yashwant Sinha, the NGO

2292 - Call to purge unique card plan

2012-02-03T15:48:00.000+11:00

Call to purge unique card plan OUR CORRESPONDENT Patna, Jan. 10: The unique identification (UID) project, headed by former Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, came in for strong criticism today from academics and legal experts at a round-table meeting at AN Sinha Institute. The meeting was organised to discuss the parliamentary standing committee report on the Unique Identification Authority of

2291 - Is it time to wind up the UID project? - Governance Now

2012-02-03T15:46:00.000+11:00

Is it time to wind up the UID project?GN Bureau | January 11 2012 The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project seems to have run into rough weather. The parliamentary standing committee on finance recently found the project to be “conceptualised with no clarity” and “directionless”. While the home ministry has voiced its concerns about the project, the planning commission has

2290 - Politics of Identity by Shyamanuja Das - dq India

2012-02-03T15:27:00.001+11:00

Cover Story: The Politics of Identity URL: http://dqindia.ciol.commakesections.asp/12011005.asp Section: Top Stories Author Name: Shyamanuja Das Author Email: shyamanujad@cybermedia.co.in ------------------------------------------------------------Recently, Google released its annual Zeitgist for 2011, that gives an idea of what people searched online globally and in a particular region

2289 - State Govt Should Put a Stay on Aadhaar/UID Project & Biometric based NPR for MNIC after Parliamentary Committee Report - Gopal Krishna

2012-02-03T15:14:00.000+11:00

From: Gopal Krishna Hindi & English Press Release State Govt Should Put a Stay on Aadhaar/UID Project & Biometric based NPR for MNIC after Parliamentary Committee Report Parliamentary Committee Cites Global Experience and Citizens Testimony to Reject Central Govt’s database project Patna10/1/2012: A compelling logic has emerged for the Bihar Government to put a stay on