Striving for Financial Inclusion
Bipul Pathak, Commissioner/Secretary, Science & Technology and Information Technology Department Government of Jammu & Kashmir “We will successfully demonstrate to […]
Bipul Pathak, Commissioner/Secretary, Science & Technology and Information Technology Department Government of Jammu & Kashmir “We will successfully demonstrate to […]
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia assured that the government will introduce a bill during the Monsoon Session of […]
On the subject of safeguarding missing children and tracking them, the Home Ministry in New Delhi has issued a new […]
The government has cleared the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)’s proposal to enroll an extra 40 crore people in […]
Ajai Chowdhry, Founder, HCL & Chairman, HCL Infosystems, was awarded the Padma Bhushan, by the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil
The Government of India recently notified setting up of a national authority to provide permanent ID number to each one of its over one billion citizens. The identification number will be provided by the National Authority for Unique Identify (UID), an entity under the Planning Commission.
The Unique Identity Project seeks to assign a unique identity (UID) number to each individual in the country that would remain a permanent identifier right from birth to death of the individual…
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Journalists have been issued new electronic press accreditation cards by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of India. These new tamper proof electronic cards have security features like electronic signature of PIB and Home Ministry officials and are valid for two years.