The 16 Digit unique identification pan-India project launched by the Central Government has started gaining acceptance. Five leading national banks; SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and Axis Bank have decided to offer Accounts that require only the Aadhar card as the verification document. With the RBI recently directing the banks to accept Aadhar letter as the proof of both identity...

The Aadhar project has been the government’s most ambitious project. Surely, to give identity numbers to 1.2 billion people can be no easy feat! Headed by ex-Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which runs the Aadhar project, has launched many initiatives to get people to apply for Aadhar cards. Earlier, Aadhar launched a YouTube channel to spread awareness...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has unveiled a YouTube Channel where it will showcase videos pertaining to the various aspects of the Personal Identification Card ‘Aadhaar’. The  Aadhaar Official Channel is a very innovative mass communication tool & hopefully will help jack-up enrollments says UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani, “The Aadhar Official Channel has very...

The Aadhar Numbers will soon reach waiting applicants via Mobile Phones. In an endeavor to speed delivery of over 16 Crore Aadhaar Numbers, The Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) will be sending Aadhaar unique identification numbers via SMS. So far just 9.5 Crore have been dispatched. The huge backlog can be covered significantly if the Unique Numbers are sent via Mobile...

Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) failed to secure funds for the Resident Identity Card (RIC). The RIC card is a critical link that will enable ‘online’ usage of the Aadhaar number for the National Population Register (NPR) scheme. The NPR scheme will have to be completed before the 2014 Elections as the Govt....

A panel headed by Nandan Nilekani, has suggested to make any payments above Rs. 1000 be made or received electronically. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman feels this move should be really helpful in cutting down the amount of money siphoned of as graft or kick-backs. The panel is of the opinion that this alteration will boost transparency & increase accountability. At...

The Unique Identification Project, which started with much fanfare, has been taking a lot of flake lately. Hence, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has decided to conduct a thorough review of the process to identify & eliminate the flaws. The collection of biometric identifiers of over 60 Crores Indians, had begun quite well. However, with such a huge target spread over a vast...

India’s ambitious UID project named Aadhar intends to create an ecosystem of applications and services that center around the idea of authenticating users through their UID. Nandan Nilakeni, Chairman, UIDAI plans to do this by opening up the Aadhar API to third party developers. An API or application programming interface is a set of rules that software programs follow to communicate with each...

The main force behind Aadhaar is to provide residents with a means to easily and effectively establish their identity to any agency without having the need to produce multiple identity documents. Aadhaar would thus be critical to the Government in achieving its goals of Social and Financial inclusion. Well, according to Nandan Nilekani, chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI),...

Earlier, we told you how Google, Yahoo, Cisco & Intel have expressed a lot of interest in India’s Unique ID Number project – which is an initiative by the Indian Government set up a centralized identification system for the Indian citizens which can be used for various kinds of identification purposes. Now Microsoft has joined the race too! Finally the research wing of Microsoft...