Rs 300 Crore Aadhaar Contract for Reliance-HCL consortium

Telecom services provider Reliance Communications (RCom), in a consortium led by IT firm HCL Infosystems, is believed to have bagged […]

“e-Kalyan is One of the Biggest Social Sector e-Governance Projects in India”

Sanjay Prasad Principal Secretary, Social Justice & Empowerment Department, Government of Gujarat The Social Justice and Empowerment Department (SJED) is […]

The line of debate

[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

While government aims to assign unique numbers to a billion plus population for providing a portable identity and eliminating of ghosts from databases, it has spurred a public debate on the potential misuse of UID leading to infringement of individual privacy and liberty and data security

AADHAAR:The Unique Identity

[This article was published in the May 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Unique Identification (UID) project, headed by Shri Nandan Nilekani, has been renamed

DIT launches unique identification cards for Indian citizens

The department of information technology (DIT) has initiated the process of assigning a unique identification (UID) to the Indian citizen.