[Reader-list] MNIC: Parliament Questions - 38

[Taha Mehmood]

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF  	HOME AFFAIRS
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED 	 QUESTION NO  	1355
ANSWERED ON   	23.07.2002
NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD
1355 .	Shri VINAY KUMAR SORAKE
	


(a) whether feasibility study of National Identity Card System has
been completed;

(b) if so, the details thereof and the time by which it is likely to
be implemented;

(c) whether this effort and expenditure would overlap the project
already initiated by the Central Election Commission for the issue of
electoral identity card;

(d) whether the National Identity Card Project can utilize the data
already in possession of CEC to major extent; and

(e) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI CH. VIDYASAGAR RAO)


(a) & (b): Yes, Sir. The detailed feasibility report has covered
aspects relating to the creation of an identification system of one
billion people, streamlining of the machinery for the registration of
births and deaths at the Panchayat level and institutional as well as
technological options for the creation of an integrated database of
personal identities capable of being continuously updated. The
Government will finalize its decision only after an in-depth
examination of all relevant issues and after necessary preparations
are made for launching the system, including giving legal backing to
the scheme.

(c) to (e): Since the electoral identity cards issued by the Election
Commission of India (ECI) is not a universal system of identification
based on compulsory registration of Indian citizens or registrations
of birth and deaths, the proposal of issue of Multipurpose National
Identity Cards to the Indian citizens cannot be linked with it.
However, the data base already in possession of the ECI would be taken
into account while working out the modalities of implementation of the
scheme.