On Wednesday 30 June 2010 17:08:50 Debayan Banerjee wrote: > On 30 June 2010 07:12, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice going for Rs.1900Cr. > > Is there a write up somewhere on fosscomm wiki or elsewhere > detailing the optimum means of tackling the NUID project? I just > wanted to know how you would have implemented it if you were > incharge.
Tackling - you mean opposing. As far as implementing goes, the primary focus was cleverly shifted from why to how by appointing Nandini Nilenkani, who obligingly produces all the right type of studies that aids mutual back scratching. The next few lines have been repeated ad nauseum. 1) subsidy / Aid does not reach the intended recipient not because of lack of identity, but because of lack of fool proof verification. 2) This happens because of corrupt officials in the dispersal, verification AND redressal chains, the last part more evident in it's complete abscence. 3) No accountability in all government agencies without exception. It takes a very well healed citizen an entire lifetime to get an iota of relief from the most glaring atrocities of officialdom. So how is accountability going to come into governance?. How is the infrastructure for verification (infact for anything at all starting with schools and health care) going to be put in place?. You dont perchance think that city slickers will tramp to Mugij or Piplodi to get free treatment do you? Tying ones identity to some biometric does not in anyway address the core issue of accountability and infrastructure. Other practical details of data collection, misuse, exploitation etc come after the above is addressed. As far as the current act goes the UIDAI first assigns itself salaries, then protects itself from accountability and then puts up a penal deterrrent with a pleasant side effect of screwing those who might want to highilight it's glaring tech flaws. Why is a UIDAI official exempt "in good faith" and not a member of the public. Why does an official not get 10 yrs when a person on the outside is entitled to 3. You know what? You guys dont like to see the poor empowered with hightech. So what if 45000cr will be spent after 9000cr farmer loan writeoff. Come to think of it the last writeoff was 10 yrs ago. So 45000cr will buy us 50 yrs doing absolutely nothing. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
