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[Taha Mehmood]

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/multipurpose-ids-for-citizens-by-2011-chidambaram/466375/

Multi-purpose IDs for citizens by 2011: PC


Express news service Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 0358 hrs IST

New Delhi:

As it works on countering terror, the government is stepping up
measures to ensure availability of multipurpose identity cards to all
citizens by 2011.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, speaking to reporters after
assuming charge, said: “The National Population Register will be ready
by 2011 and the Multipurpose National Identity Cards (MNICs) will be
issued to all residents in 2011.”

The project aims at providing a unique national identity number to
each person in the National Population Register, he said.

A pilot project has been under implementation on an experimental basis
covering a population of 30.95 lakh

in selected areas in 12 states and one Union Territory. “In the
coastal districts and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, work has already
started,” he said.

The identity card is a smart card with a microprocessor chip. The
identity smart cards are being issued to citizens above 18 years of
age.