Aadhaar: Own the idea

Aadhaar, the ambitious Unique Identity Number project, is still experiencing runway trouble. A parliamentary standing committee on finance, headed by BJP MP Yashwant Sinha, has expressed its reservations about the National Identification Authority of India Bill (which would have provided statutory backing to the UID scheme) in its current form. Opposition to the Aadhaar project runs along a few familiar lines — that it does not seek to be clinching proof of citizenship, and that it duplicates the more rigorous efforts of the Registrar-General of India. Some worry about the ramifications for privacy, in having a single, biometrics-based tracking number rather than diverse identification systems, and the fact that private organisations have been roped into collecting data for Aadhaar.

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