*Plan panel, Parliamentary committee red flag rising UID costs END OF AADHAR AND NN.... COMING SOON :-)*
Plan panel, Parliamentary committee red flag rising UID costs The government’s ambitious project to provide a unique identification number to all residents in the country is facing opposition from two unexpected fronts – the Planning Commission, over almost tripling of costs due to iris scan and the Parliamentary standing committee on finance, over ownership of the project. The Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) proposal to include iris scan and expand the enrolment drive to 1.12 billion is estimated to increase its budget from Rs 6,600 crore now to Rs 17,900 crore. Along with this, the fund needs of the Registrar General of India (RGI) or the Census office to complete the creation of the National Population Register, too has more than doubled from Rs 3,254 crore to Rs 7,732.85 crore. The NPR is also collecting biometric data of all residents and NPR cards will include UID numbers. Concerned over the increase in costs and the duplication of work between the NPR and the UIDAI, the Plan panel proposes to soon write to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention. The PM chairs the Planning Commission and had set up the UIDAI as an office attached to the Commission. In fact, in a status paper last year, the UIDAI tried to clear the air on the high costs of iris scan. “The current high prices for iris technology are a result of low volume and its use in cost insensitive security applications. Considering the large demand that will come from India for iris devices and software, the UIDAI expects the prices for devices and software to fall rapidly,” it had said. The government’s ambitious project to provide a unique identification number to all residents in the country is facing opposition from two unexpected fronts – the Planning Commission, over almost tripling of costs due to iris scan and the Parliamentary standing committee on finance, over ownership of the project. The Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) proposal to include iris scan and expand the enrolment drive to 1.12 billion is estimated to increase its budget from Rs 6,600 crore now to Rs 17,900 crore. Along with this, the fund needs of the Registrar General of India (RGI) or the Census office to complete the creation of the National Population Register, too has more than doubled from Rs 3,254 crore to Rs 7,732.85 crore. The NPR is also collecting biometric data of all residents and NPR cards will include UID numbers. Concerned over the increase in costs and the duplication of work between the NPR and the UIDAI, the Plan panel proposes to soon write to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention. The PM chairs the Planning Commission and had set up the UIDAI as an office attached to the Commission. The standing committee on finance too is learnt to have raised concerns over the costs and also the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, that seeks to provide legal backing to the project. The Indian Express sent a detailed e-mail questionnaire to UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani on the issue of costs and iris scanning, but did not get a response. Sources in UIDAI, however, said these issues are not serious given the benefits that will accrue to the public delivery system. MORE... http://www.indianexpress.com/news/plan-panel-parliamentary-committee-red-flag-rising-uid-costs/838507/1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
