Sir, Please read "Rs. 1,500 crore" below as "Rs. 150,000 crore".
Thanking you, Yours sincerely Sukla Sen, EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai 25 01 2011 On 25 January 2011 11:23, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > To > The Chairman, > The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, > New Delhi > <[email protected]> > > Sir, > > I have come to understand that the draft National Identification Authority > of India (NIA) Bill is currently under your consideration and it is being > deliberated by the Standing Committee. > This Bill, as we know, seeks to constitute a statutory authority to be > called the National Identification Authority of India (NIAI) and lay down > its powers and functions, besides the framework for issuing unique identity > (UID) numbers to be known as Aadhaar numbers. And this Aadhar project is > designed to deeply impact the lives of 1.2 billion Indian residents. > Given the immense importance of the project, I, as a concerned citizen of > India, will like to present my following misgivings about the project for > your due consideration in the process of deliberating the draft Bill, which > will provide legislative sanction to the subject project, and formulating > your recommendations. > > 1. As I understand, this mammoth project, aimed at covering 1.2 billion > Indian residents, has been launched without any feasibility study carried > out and any such report having been prepared and presented to the Indian > parliament let alone putting it in the public domain for sharing of views. > > 2. I also understand that the project, the final cost of which is going to > be exceedingly high - maybe a whopping Rs. 1,500 crore as per a figure > quoted by the Times of India, has been launched without any cost-benefit > analysis and comparisons with other available/feasible options. No such > report has been presented to the Indian parliament let alone putting it in > the public domain for sharing of views. > > 3. There are also serious apprehensions about the data safety - who get to > access the individual data, legitimately or illegitimately, and to what uses > these could be put. > > 4. There are also serious apprehensions about state surveillance and > profiling of individual citizens and specific groups or communities. > > Hope you will do your best to ensure that the legislative stamp of approval > on the Aadhar project in terms of the enactment of the NIA Bill will be > provided only after presentation and widespread deliberations of a > feasibility report and cost-benefit analysis. You'll also ensure that the > misgivings as listed in points 3 & 4 above are fully clarified and > adequately addressed during the deliberations conducted by you. > > I'll be highly obliged if you kindly acknowledge this missive. > > Thanking you, > > Yours sincerely > Sukla Sen, EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), > Mumbai > 25 01 2011 > > > > -- > Peace Is Doable > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Peace Mumbai" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<peace-mumbai%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/peace-mumbai?hl=en. > -- Peace Is Doable -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
