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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has set an ambitious target of allotting UID numbers to two crore persons in Maharashtra by March 31. The State's population numbers over 10 crore. Early this week, the actual process of UID enrolment across the State has commenced. This process is being done by 15 companies which include IT majors such as Wipro and Spanco. State Bank of India, Union Bank, Indian Bank, and Bank of Maharashtra, have also tied up with UIDAI for issuing unique identity (UID) numbers. A UIDAI official on condition of anonymity told Business Line "For companies, the main driver for issuing maximum number of valid UIDs is a payment of Rs 50, which they will receive for every successful enrolment. Banks, through their UID drive, will get new customers whom they can sell financial products to, he said. UIDAI has also devised a system of incentives where if a company/bank manages to achieve 80 per cent of its target then it will receive 20 per cent additional payment. If the company/bank manages a 50 per cent target then they will get an additional 4 per cent payment.

"BALANGIR: Chaos reigned supreme over the Unique Identification Card (UID) data procurement process in Balangir, with poor people queuing up eagerly hoping to be doled out more rations and old age pensions, only to be disappointed and irritated at the painstaking process of collecting their photographs, eye and thumb impressions. Even as BPL families left spaces meant for filling up PAN card number, DL, LPG card number, pension ID, health insurance number, etc., blank in the UID forms, they remained clueless about the purpose of the UID, trekking to the centres where the enumeration process for the multi-utility UID document is on, with the idea that they will be given immediate rewards like more rice under the Public Distribution System (PDS) or immediate jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Needless to say, the places were scenes of total chaos as villagers were seen losing their patience. Thay failed to understand the entire exercise and had little idea what the UID card is all about."

o not be surprised if you are asked to furnish information under more than eight mandatory heads - demographic and biometric - when you go for registration under the Unique Identification (UID) number project in Himachal Pradesh. The state has tapped the UID project at its initial stage and combined it with its own food and civil supplies department project aimed for better delivery of services in future. Along with the eight mandatory questions under the UID project - name, residence, date of birth, photo, all 10 finger prints and iris image - the citizens will now also be asked to provide information about their status on ration cards, PAN cards, LPG connection and bank accounts. This additional information would be used exclusively by the state government for future planning and eliminating duplication in delivery of services by the food and civil supplies and consumer affairs department. The department is the nodal agency for monitoring the UID project in Himachal.

The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) is set to become the first educational campus in the country to function through unique identification (UID) numbers. The UID-enabled campus will work towards making a cashless environment where all transactions from buying a notebook to a parantha in the canteen will be done through UID numbers and biometric (fingerprint) authentication.

To ensure elimination of bogus ration cards, the central government is pushing states to go for biometric ones, taking the help of unique identification (UID) numbers. States have been asked to take a lead in distributing biometric ration cards, as identification of beneficiaries for issuing ration cards is a state subject. States like Gujarat, Haryana and Maharashtra have already launched pilot projects to make biometric ration cards. A senior food ministry official said a biometric ration card would be different from a regular one. It would have barcoded details of the beneficiary, with a picture of the head of the family. The card can be read at any ration shop through a machine that will then be matched with the fingerprint details of the beneficiary to eliminate duplication or misuse.

Many Indians have raised data security and privacy issues over the ambitious UID number project. Now, even the US is concerned that the number could be issued to terrorists through fake ID

MYSORE: Don't have Aadhar number? You could be in trouble. In a move to meet the June-end deadline for the unique identification (UID) number scheme, the Mysore district administration has made it mandatory for learner's licence or driving licence. If you have already applied for Aadhar, just quote the enrolment number to get the licence.

With registration process under the Unique Identity Card scheme (UID) 'Aadhar' ending by June in Mysore district, district authorities have initiated steps making the quoting of UID or enrolment identification (EID) number compulsory at various levels in the state government offices in the district. This seems contrary to what the Unique Identification Authority of India or the UIDAI had said earlier that it would be optional.

MUMBAI: Teachers from schools and colleges in Thane are a worried lot. A Government Resolution (GR) dated April 18 states that all those teaching at government-aided schools and colleges need to get their Unique Identification (UID) card created before August 20, or they will not receive their salaries for the month. A notice has been pasted at the Thane Zilla Parishad Pay Unit and schools and college authorities have already informed their staff about it. "We have already informed our teachers to get their cards done as soon as possible. We haven't received any circular from the zilla parishad, but the notice has been put up at the bill submission centre and we are only following orders," said Harshida Someshwar, principal (junior college) of NKT College in Thane.

BANGALORE: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has hit a legal bump. Questioning the project's legality, V K Somasekhar, founder-trustee of Grahak Shakti, and Mathew Thomas, a retired Army officer of Citizens' Action Forum, have issued notices to UIDAI chairperson and Planning Commission chairperson and deputy chairperson.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has brought in an amendment to its Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order 2000 making the Unique Identification Number (UID) under the Aadhaar project must for availing LPG refills.