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PM, Sonia launch 'Aadhaar' in Maharashtra

Posted by tamil on Thursday, September 30, 2010

Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi launch `Aadhaar`

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh andCongress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday launched one of the most ambitious projects to provide unique identity number to each citizen of the country.

PM and Sonia attended the inaugural function of Aadhaar/ Unique Identity (UID) project in Maharashtra`s Nandurbar district.

Manmohan and Sonia handed over few identity cards to some villagers. Ranjana Sonawane were the first Indian to get the UID number. The project is being implemented by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The UIDAI is using data collected by Census authorities to prepare the National Population Register (NPR) to create the UIDs.

Planning Commission statement said, “the unique identity project would ensure the uniqueness of the `Aadhaar` by linking them to biometric attributes like fingerprints and iris scans. This will help agencies and service providers across India clean out duplicates and fakes from their databases.”

The elimination of duplicate, ghost and fake identities across various schemes is expected to substantially improve the efficiency of the delivery systems by ensuring that the leakages are reduced and the benefits reach the right people,” it added.

The Aadhaar number will ease these difficulties in identification, by providing a nationally valid and verifiable single source of identity proof,” it added.

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