Uid Project

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  Linking PAN To Aadhaar Stands, Not Mandatory For Bank Accounts: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed linking of Aadhaar with PAN or Permanent Account Number, which is mandatory for filing of income tax return (ITR). The top court, however, ruled that it is not mandatory to link bank accounts with Aadhaar or Unique Identity Number, a 12-digit personal identification number issued by the Unique Identification A...

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  Government May Bring Laws on Aadhaar, Bankruptcy as Money Bills

  The government is likely to introduce legislations on Aadhaar and bankruptcy code as money bills with a view to ensuring their smooth passage in Parliament. "We will bring as many legislation as possible in the form of Money Bills. We will follow the same procedure for the bankruptcy law," a senior Finance Ministry official said.

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  Parliament Standing Committee Seeks Legal Status for Aadhaar

  The government has been asked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to provide a statutory backing to Aadhaar at the earliest and take immediate steps to address issues pertaining to the project.

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  Centralised Voter Management System Can Remove Distortions: Nandan Nilekani

  Putting in place a centralized voter management system can help eliminate distortions arising out of the political economy that has muddied voter registrations, says a new book co-authored by technocrat Nandan Nilekani.

• India risks backlash hurrying through Aadhaar project

  Villagers say while they now pay market rates for kerosene, the cash transfers due to them are often not deposited in their accounts.

• Chidambaram vs Nilekani: New round in turf war over biometrics

  The Union Cabinet has asked Nandan Nilekani, who heads the massive Unique ID scheme, to ensure the use of biometric data gathered by the Home Ministry's National Population Register (NPR) Project for his Aadhaar project. This after Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote to the Prime Minister seeing his intervention and complaining that the NPR project h...

• Prime Minister meets senior ministers to sort out UID project

  The data collection by UIDAI has been done by hired organisations which is a cause of concern for the Home Minister.

• Prime Minister meets senior ministers to sort out UID project

  Amid differences between Home Ministry and Planning Commission over continuation of Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI Project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held discussions with senior Cabinet colleagues to resolve the issues.

• Nandan Nilekani on UIDAI and the biometrics battle

  UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project Aadhaar.

• Full transcript: Nandan Nilekani on UID project, Aadhaar

  Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project, Aadhaar

• Nandan Nilekani and the biometrics battle

  UIDAI is, let's face it, not a zippy acronym. But the Unique Identification Authority of India - again, not a catchy title for a project - owes its very high-profile to its leader Nandan Nilekani, the alleged rivalry the scheme has stirred up in the Cabinet, and its mission statement - to provide to every Indian a card bearing a 12-digit ID or aadh...

• Acropetal Technologies Ltd - Updates on UID Project

  With reference to the earlier announcement dated July 07, 2011, regarding the LOI for the enrolment of UID in urban areas of 14 districts of Kerala state. The value of the order was estimated to be Rs. 25.00 crores, Acropetal Technologies Ltd has now informed BSE that the KELTRON (Kerala Electronics Development Corporation Ltd), by means of a Work ...

• Dazzel Confindive Ltd - UID Enrolment Project under AADHAAR

  Dazzel Confindive Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has been joint hand with Annop Kumar Chorsiys who is the Director of Neemuch E Filling center Neemuch (M.P). Has the UID (Unique Identification Project) Enrolment Project from Alankit Assignment Ltd, New Delhi who is the Enrolment agency for NSDL registrar for AADHAAR. Company is planning to s...

• Chidambaram raises concerns about UID, say sources

  Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has raised an alarm over the manner and processes followed by Nandan Nilekani's Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards, partly for security reasons, and because Mr Nilekani's plans to collect bio-metric data have not been formally approved by the Cabinet.

• FinMin to provide necessary funds for UID project

  The government on Monday said it will provide all the funds necessary for the implementation of its unique identification number project, dismissing media reports to the contrary. "The Ministry of Finance is fully committed to expeditious implementation of the UID project and all funds required for the smooth rollout of the project by the U...