[Reader-list] News Items posted on the net on Multipurpose National Identity Cards-124

[anupam chakravartty]

thanks for posting this Taha. cheer anupam

On 6/9/09, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Surat/Coastal-villagers-of-Gujarat-to-get-unique-identity-card-next-year/articleshow/4628463.cms
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> SURAT: Central government's massive exercise of providing unique
> multi-purpose national identity cards to coastal villagers in the wake
> of 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai has been initiated in Gujarat.
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> The Central government has asked collectors of seven districts to
> provide the details of coastal villages falling under their
> jurisdiction by February 1, 2010.
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> At the one-day all India conference on National Population
> Registration (NPR) held at New Delhi on June 3, the collectors of
> Bharuch, Surat, Valsad, Navsari, Kutch, Jamnagar and Junagadh have
> been asked to complete the exercise of collecting the database of the
> coastal villagers in four months starting from October 2009.
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> The unique identity card is an integral part of the ongoing
> Multi-Purpose National Identity Card (MNIC) scheme, and will be issued
> to citizens living in coastal villages of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa,
> Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal
> by 2010. The Union Territories, which will be covered under the first
> phase, are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and Andaman
> & Nicobar Islands.
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> Official sources said the population of around 2.5 lakh people in 83
> coastal villages in Surat's Olpaad and Choriyasi taluka will be
> covered under the Central government's unique identity card scheme by
> 2010. The initial plan is to cover the coastal villages to avoid
> terrorists taking the sea route once again.
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> The identification number will be provided by National Authority for
> Unique Identity (NAUID), an entity under Planning Commission. It will
> work in coordination with the office of the Registrar General of India
> (RGI), which has been working on the National Population Register.
> Identity cards proposed to be issued will be micro-processor
> chip-based cards, which will have information of each individual,
> his/her finger biometric as well as a photograph.
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> "The project is of a national importance and we are committed to
> complete the task by February 1," said Dilip Raval, collector, Surat.
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> According to Raval, the task will be completed in two phases
> enumerator training programme and listing and numbering of the houses
> in coastal villages.
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> A unique National Identity Number' will be assigned to each individual
> including those below 18 years of age. This number will become a link
> number' with any other application of the state government.
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