Reflections of Rajaram Bojji

The other day Sri Nilekani assured the press that UID will be fool-proof while signing an MOU with AP government agencies for getting the work done on a pilot project basis. The proven performance of government in issuing iris based ration cards, simple photograph based voter cards gives reasons for serious concern and the confidence of Sri Nilakani may be unwarranted. Million plus bogus ration cards cry out. Even a genuine person with UID will get into identity crisis because multiple agencies are involved the way Nilekani is signing MOU s and it will be a nightmarish situation with poor accountabily and complex paper trail and practically absent audit trail, compromising data integrity quite seriously. Finally undesired elements will manage the cover of UID properly to further complicate the situation because of poor loosely administered process involving multiple disparate contract based data collection and entry. Ultimately UID may become more an abused process to authenticate ille...

B. RAJARAM M.Tech., IRSE., FIE., FNAE Fmr. MD Konkan Railway/ Chairman Computer Society of India, Navi Mumbai Chapter/ Member Empowerd Board,ITER Dept of Atomic Energy,Govt of India Research Scholar TO Shri Nandan Nilekani and Shri N. Vittal UiD Project Government of India Sub: Sharing a few thoughts for success of the project. A number symbol scheme for UiD for any human on the planet with a short 6 qualified-digit long string India is launching in a big way to grant a unique ID for more than a billion population. This gives an opportunity to develop a universal scheme for all humans on the planet to have one ID An attempt to is made to develop an outline for such a scheme. Identification through a set of parameters which include not only the usual appearance and place of birth, but also profiling the life and the network of relationships with other humans and society makes the picture complete and more reliable. We need for every human for identif...