[Reader-list] National wastage system.?

[Rajen Uppinangadi]

Dear Taha,

   no piece of plastic or paper can give me national identity unless I
identify myself with the nation of which I am citizen.
     A Arundhathi Roy  and such others, born in the nation declaring herself
as sovereign nation herself, but using all the resources of the nation is
the worst example of bad citizen.As I identify with this nation, which gives
me right by my act of accepting its constitution as democratic nation, also
implies that it ordains duties on me to the nation.So, the venture of
providing the plastic piece for id as citizen at huge cost is not a big
issue but a ploy to divert big money in to busines of the venture.

Regards,

Rajen.

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Rajen,
>
> All that is commendable however my questions were about a more mundane
> matter. They were about plastic tokens. I would be grateful if you
> could share your thoughts about what seems like a whim to invest such
> a huge amount of public money on a national identity card. When even
> in so called developed countries like UK, people are asking questions
> about the validity of such an investment.
>
> Do you think we would be better off as a nation in 2011, when the
> survey related to the national population register would be complete?
> If yes, then in what manner? How will a NPR benefit the country as a
> whole? How do we know that funds appropriated for such an exercise
> will not be directed for purposes of political patronage? What about
> margin of error by the data entry people? When even in this general
> election we have hundreds of thousands of instances of names being
> fudged, addresses being misplaced and a submission by a minister
> himself that it is not possible to identify all the voters. How are we
> going to identify all Indians? How are we going to categorize people
> who are undocumented as Indians in the first place? What about people
> belonging to the third sex? What about migrant population? What about
> beggars? Who will document them? How will they be documented? There
> are 300-400 million transient population in India. IDP's add to this
> figure. If on the one hand there seems to be no thought by the policy
> makers on this issue, then don't you think, that this whole identity
> card business seems like one more big scam, a money making enterprise,
> inaugurated by the NDA and followed by the UPA in the name of
> providing security to the people?? Even the most fundamental issue,
> like the identity of person is still not resolved, why are we being
> fed this propaganda that carrying a card will help us identify
> ourselves as ourselves?
>
> Taha
>