“Today, each individual has several identification numbers beginning with election card, passport, driving licence and other social security numbers. So, now we are attempting to cull out all information from these identification documents and to create a unique identity number for each individual citizen,” Minister of State for Personnel Prithviraj Chavan told a press conference at New Delhi on Friday.
Chavan said the Planning Commission has already started the preliminary work and a notification in this regard has been issued in January 2009 while an authority has already been set up.
“It will be something like the United States social security number. All database will be integrated nationally and integrated with the crime database,” he said.
Chavan said the Planning Commission was expecting that in the next one year substantial work would be completed in generating the unique ID.
He said initially 65 to 85 percent of the citizen would be covered under this scheme in the next one to one-and-a-half year and by 2013 all citizens would be covered under the programme.
Asked about the Multipurpose National Identity Card, which is being initiated by the Union Home Ministry, the Minister said both the database would be integrated in due course of time.
“The Home Ministry is giving more focus on citizenship data. Ours is a social data and even a temporary resident of India can also get this number,” he said.
Chavan said as part of the government’s e-governance plan, 27 mission mode projects would be rolled out across the country with an outlay of Rs 20,175 crore and out of this 16 projects have already been cleared by the Union Cabinet with an outlay of Rs 10,626 crore.
The minister also announced national awards for e-governance 2008-09 which will be given away during the 12th National Conference on e-Governance in Goa on February 12-13.
On excellence in government process re-engineering, Chhattisgarh Government’s Department of Food and Civil Supplies bagged the first prize while in the exemplary horizontal transfer of ICT-based best practice the first prize went to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
In outstanding performance in citizen-centric service delivery, Bihar bagged the first prize.
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Quelle/Source: Fresh News, 06.02.2009
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