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UID centre fails to meet target

Officials believe that lack of awareness is the reason for the low number of enrollments for Aadhaar

Nine days after the Aadhaar project or Unique identification (UID) was flagged off in the city, the first operational enrollment centre fails to achieve its estimated target.
The only UID operational centre in the city is in Walkeshwar. The centre has enrolled less than one fourth of the expected number. The UID exercise started on January 26 and only 1,700 people have been enrolled.
The enrolled population stands at meagre 188 people per day. Records state that the highest number of people to be enrolled on a day stands at 250. The administration intends to establish a total of 145 centres. Officials say that one centre will cater to a lakh people.
But poor rate of enrollment has left the vendors of the UID worried about rolling out the bio-metric database for the people on time. The enrollment for UID will be on till March 2011.
Officials claim that poor awareness can be one of the reasons behind the poor rate of enrollment. "Any citizen irrespective of their domicile and state can come to their nearest centre for enrollment. The citizens have to fill and submit two forms for the procedure. One is the Know your resident (KYR) form and the other Know your resident+ form has to be submitted with the required documents," said Manisha Mhaiskar, additional municipal commissioner.
On Thursday, eight more UID centres opened their doors in the city and there will be 145 centres in total. Citizens have to submit proof of identity, address and date of birth. "After verifying the documents, imprints of all the ten fingers are taken and the impression of the iris is also recorded. The process takes only 10 minutes. After this an enrollment receipt is given to the people," an operator at the centre explained.
People will be given a token that will specify the time that will be required to come to the centre, after the verification of documents. Moreover, citizen can call 108, the BMC helpline to inquire about their nearest UID centre. Official also state that the UID is mandatory for all citizens. "It is an Indian citizenship card for everyone. The card is a form of smart card which will give a 12 number unique passcode to every Indian enabling him to avail public schemes."
The BMC is also leaving no stone unturned to make those without any shelter a part of the national population registry (NPR) or to enable their enrolment for the UID.
They have planned a night long survey for counting the homeless in the city and other elaborate steps to give them a bio-metric identity. The survey for the homeless will be carried out on February 28.

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Unique Identification Authority to become a statutory body

3rd dec 2010
A bill seeking to grant statutory powers and status to Nandan Nilekani-headed national body for issue of identification numbers to all citizens was introduced in the Rajya Sabha today.
The National Identification Authority of India (NIAI), constituted in January, 2009 is functioning as an executive body under the planning commission.
As the NIAI is expected to issue the identification numbers to citizens, it may require statutory powers to deal with issues like security and confidentiality of information, impersonation and unauthorised access to data.
It was felt, however, that mere executive powers may not be adequate for the authority to discharge its functions.
"It has been felt necessary to make it as a statutory authority for carrying out the functions of issuing identification numbers to residents in India in an effective manner," the statement of objects and reasons of the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, said.
The proposed legislation was introduced in the Upper House by minister of planning and parliamentary affairs V Narayansamy amidst din and shouting of slogans by the opposition, agitated over irregularities in the allocation of second-generation mobile telephony spectrum, as pointed out by the comptroller and auditor general (CAG).
The scheme was launched at Nandurbar, a tribal district in north Maharashtra in September.
"The scheme of unique identification involves collection of demographic information and biometric information from individuals for the purpose of issuing of unique identification numbers," the bill said.
It has provisions for up to three years imprisonment besides penalties for any misuse of information.
"The authority shall take measures (including security safeguards) to ensure that information in the possession or control of the authority is secured and protected against any loss or unauthorised access...," it said.
The authority will consist of a chairperson and two part-time members appointed by the Central government for a term of three years.
There is also a provision of an identity review committee to check the pattern of usage of identification numbers.
The cabinet had approved the bill on September 24. The identification number will be issued to citizens except those in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure the authentication of individuals for access to benefits and services of government and other various schemes.
Earlier, the government had pegged an expenditure of Rs3023 crore by March 2011 and thereafter recurring establishment costs for the entire project to be completed by March 2014.

Unique Identity Card

City-based tech outfit Micro Technologies already has an UID to its credit

 Unique identification drive to start in city

Civic administration gears up to launch the scheme from Nov 1

Navi Mumbai Municipal Commissioner (NMMC) is set to introduce Maharashtra Government's 'Aadhar', the Unique Identity Card scheme, launched by the Centre, in city soon. The municipal commissioner has been appointed as registrar for the scheme, while ward officers will be sub-registrars.
The ward wise data gathering for the scheme will start from November 1 and the detailed scheme was explained by the civic administration in the General Body held on Tuesday.
"The residents will have to submit their name, date of birth, sex and address. They will also have to submit proof of identification and proof of address while filling the form. During the survey along with the above data, photo of a person, finger prints and IRIS image will also be taken," a civic official said on condition of anonymity.
The civic administration has to collect all the data between November 1 and February 28 to submit it to the state government. "The unique identity card number will assist the citizens while opening savings account in the bank, get health insurance without hassle and other benefits. This will provide easy on line access to all the information of citizen," the official said.
In case of proof of identity (POI), the citizens can submit PAN card, ration card, voter Id card, driving licence, passport and so on. As a proof of address, the individuals can submit passport, bank passbook, post office passbook, ration card and voter Id card.
"For children till 5 years of age, parents have to give complete information. Besides, people who don't have any of the above identification or residential proofs should acquire letter from government appointed introducer, which is Talathi, Gram Sevak, Anagnwadi Sevika and so on," the official concluded.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is an agency of the Government of India responsible for implementing the envisioned Multipurpose National Identity Card or Unique Identification card (UID Card) project in the country.
It was established in February 2009, and will own and operate the Unique Identification Number database. The authority will aim at providing a unique number to all Indians, but not smart cards. The authority would provide a database of residents containing very simple data in biometrics. The agency is headed by a chairman, who holds a cabinet rank.

she first recipient of the unique ID card, Chhabadibai Sonavane

 India's first UID recipient returns to `50-a-day life

The babu-neta brigade is no longer around to ensure she is paid `100, as much as the men

On Thursday, after a fortnight of photo-ops and hobnobbing with the most powerful people in the country, the first recipient of the unique ID card, Chhabadibai Sonavane, set out to look for work. She was elated when she learnt she would be paid Rs50 for eight hours of paddy planting at a farm 5km from her home in Tembhali village in tribal-dominated Nandurbar district.
Only a day ago, prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi had presented her with the first of the 1.2 billion UID cards to be distributed across the country. But that was a day ago.
Chhabadibai, though the sarpanch of her village thanks to women's reservation, cannot even ensure she gets paid the Rs100 that the men in her village earn for the same job.
"They (politicians)will not come to provide us food through the year. If my husband and I don't work in the monsoon, when labourers can find work, we will have to go hungry when the dry season begins," she said pragmatically.
Hence, while the VIP guests have returned to their comfortable homes in Delhi and Mumbai, Chhabadibai, her husband Tanjveer, and four sons have gone back to chasing daily wages. What about the panchayat, we ask with characteristic urban naivete, and pat comes the reply, "I go to the panchayat office twice a week. Beyond that, it is impossible."
However, this sustenance struggle has not extinguished her hope that conditions in Tembhali will improve one day. "I hope that after so much publicity, our people will get some benefit," Chhabadibai told DNA. "Instead of being forced to migrate to Madhya Pradesh or Gujarat for daily wages, we should be given work under government schemes in our own district so that we don't have to lead nomadic lives."
But the village hasn't been entirely forgotten. After the siege by mediamen armed with satellite vans, generator sets and bite-hungry scribes is over, villagers are now being called upon by polite officials who seem to be taking great pains to explain government schemes.
Gram panchayat member Subhash Sonawane, the proud owner of Tembhali's first landline installed in the wake of the visit, said, "Finally, we got a road, the school was painted, and children got new uniforms and books. But now that the programme is over, things have started going back to their normal pace," he said.
The district administration is, of course, on the defensive. Nandurbar collector AT Kumbhar told DNA, "It is wrong to say government officials visited this village only because of the UID project. Our officers go to Tembhali regularly to implement the various schemes. We have implemented a scheme there under which they get food grains at nominal rates."

Aadhaar: How to get your unique ID from Govt of India

India's ambitious Unique ID project dubbed "Aadhaar", which aims to give every Indian citizen a unique number mapped to biometrics, was launched on Wednesday in the Nadurbar district of Maharashtra. The Technoholik.com team got a sneak peek at the UIDAI (Unique ID Authority of India) tech centre in Bangalore, to tell you everything you need to know about the enrolment process.

The setup

The enrollment officer (EO) sits at right angles to you and enters data into a laptop. The insight of the Aadhaar team here is that the person getting enrolled must see what is being entered. Thus there's a monitor in front of you, which mirrors the enrolment officer's screen so that you can point out spelling mistakes or other errors. If the person getting enrolled is illiterate, he or she can nominate someone to accompany and verify. There's a small laser printer behind the EO's laptop and a webcam, fingerprint reader and iris scanner account for the remainder of the hardware setup. Unless, of course, you count the light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a white "roll-up" chart behind you for the "passport photo studio" effect!

Compulsory information

Name (first and last name compulsory but middle name optional), Gender (Male/Female/Transgender) and Date of Birth are the compulsory fields. Whereas postal address is also required, it's more for the sake of mailing your UID number than strictly being a proof of residence. The EO asks you for a PIN code and the city/district fields are automatically populated. The rest of the address is entered manually.

Supporting documents

The UID team acknowledges the fact that a large number of people may not have any supporting documents to prove their identity. In this case, one is allowed to bring another resident who is already in possession of an Aadhaar number to be an "introducer" by vouching for the person seeking to enroll. Of course, there is scope for fraud either with a colluding introducer or by just using fake supporting documents. However, the whole point of Aadhaar is that one can only fake one's identity once and this prevents large-scale "ghost identity" creation, which is the bane of most Indian government schemes. The great PAN (Permanent Account Number with the Income Tax department) card scam after all involved a single person creating thousands of different PAN numbers.

Photograph

A photograph is taken of the person getting enrolled, purely for the purpose of printing it out on the enrolment receipt, so that illiterate residents have some way of knowing that the receipt indeed belongs to them. Beyond that, the photograph serves no biometric or authentication purpose.

Biometrics

First there's an iris scan where you look into a binocular-like device held up to your eyes by the EO. After that it's the four fingers of each hand, followed by both thumbs (a process familiar to those entering the US) for your 10 fingerprints.

The wait

The EO makes you review the data entered one final time before giving you a laser-printed receipt. Whereas the residents of Tembhali, the "Aadhaar village", were to get their numbers today, the rest of us won't be that lucky. We'll only get to walk away with our receipts and have to wait for the actual number to be delivered by India Post! What is Aadhaar?
Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique number which the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will issue for all residents. The number will be stored in a centralised database and linked to the basic demographics and biometric information – photograph, ten fingerprints and iris – of each individual. The details of the data fields and verification procedures are available here.

Aadhaar will be:

• Easily verifiable in an online, cost-effective way
• Unique and robust enough to eliminate the large number of duplicate and fake identities in government and private databases
• A random number generated, devoid of any classification based on caste, creed, religion and geography

Aadhaar UID Why Aadhaar?
Aadhaar-based identification will have two unique features:

• Universality, which is ensured because Aadhaar will over time be recognised and accepted across the country and across all service providers.
• Every resident's entitlement to the number.
• The number will consequently form the basic, universal identity infrastructure over which Registrars and Agencies across the country can build their identity-based applications.
• Unique Identification of India (UIDAI) will build partnerships with various Registrars across the country to enrol residents for the number. Such Registrars may include state governments, state Public Sector Units (PSUs), banks, telecom companies, etc. These Registrars may in turn partner with enrolling agencies to enrol residents into Aadhaar.
• Aadhaar will ensure increased trust between public and private agencies and residents. Once residents enrol for Aadhaar, service providers will no longer face the problem of performing repeated Know Your Customer (KYC) checks before providing services. They would no longer have to deny services to residents without identification documents. Residents would also be spared the trouble of repeatedly proving identity through documents each time they wish to access services such as obtaining a bank account, passport, or driving license etc.
• By providing a clear proof of identity, Aadhaar will empower poor and underprivileged residents in accessing services such as the formal banking system and give them the opportunity to easily avail various other services provided by the Government and the private sector. The centralised technology infrastructure of the UIDAI will enable 'anytime, anywhere, anyhow' authentication. Aadhaar will thus give migrants mobility of identity. Aadhaar authentication can be done both offline and online, online authentication through a cell phone or land line connection will allow residents to verify their identity remotely. Remotely, online Aadhaar-linked identity verification will give poor and rural residents the same flexibility that urban non-poor residents presently have in verifying their identity and accessing services such as banking and retail. Aadhaar will also demand proper verification prior to enrolment, while ensuring inclusion. Existing identity databases in India are fraught with problems of fraud and duplicate or ghost beneficiaries. To prevent these problems from seeping into the Aadhaar database, the UIDAI plans to enrol residents into its database with proper verification of their demographic and biometric information. This will ensure that the data collected is clean from the beginning of the program. However, much of the poor and under-privileged population lack identity documents and Aadhaar may be the first form of identification they will have access to. The UIDAI will ensure that its Know Your Resident (KYR) standards do not become a barrier for enrolling the poor and has accordingly developed an Introducer system for residents who lack documentation. Through this system, authorised individuals ('Introducers') who already have an Aadhaar, can introduce residents who don't have any identification documents, enabling them to receive their Aadhaar.

Who can get an Aadhaar?

An individual who is a resident in India and satisfies the verification process laid down by the UIDAI can get an Aadhaar.

How to get an Aadhaar?

The process to get an Aadhaar will be circulated by the local media upon which residents need to go to the nearest Enrolment Camp to register for an Aadhaar. The resident primarily needs to carry certain documents which will be specified in the media advertisement.
Upon registering for Aadhaar, residents will go through a biometric scanning of ten fingerprints and iris. They will then be photographed and given an enrolment number upon completion. Depending on the enrolment agency, residents will be issued an Aadhaar number within 20 to 30 days.
Contact Centre Details

The UIDAI will set up a Contact Centre to manage all queries and grievances and serve as a single point of contact for the organization. The details of the Contact Centre will be published on the website as and when enrolment begins.

• The users of this system are expected to be residents, registrars and enrolment agencies.
• Any resident seeking enrolment is given a printed acknowledgement form with an Enrolment Number, that enables the resident to make queries about her/his enrolment status through any communication channel of the contact centre.
• Each enrolment agency will be given a unique code that will also enable faster and pointed access to the Contact Centre that includes a technical helpdesk.