[Reader-list] UIDAI is not operational says GoI to Central Info Commission

[Anivar Aravind]

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From: sarbajit roy <mail.sarbajitroy at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Subject: [rti_india] UIDAI is not operational says GoI to Central Info
Commission
To: rti_india <rti_india at yahoogroups.com>


 The Planning Commission has stated in writing (with a copy to me) to
the Central Information Commission that the UIDAI is not operational
and it has only 1 officer on its rolls at present ( orally: and they
are also under an eviction notice to vacate their offices.at Yojana
Bhawan and arrange private office space since GoI has no space for
them. <smile>). NN was described as a "only a media hero"

The order of CIC is expected soon after today's hearings.

Incidentally the "secret" document was admitted and a direction as
sought by PC from the CIC to "order it to be published on Planning
Commission website - and we would comply" - which was rightly rejected
out of hand. The CIC was also duly informed that the secret
doc was not prepared by the UIDAI but with "private" help from NN's
Infosys and international "friends". Furthermore despite being
sanctioned a budget of Rs 120 crore for this year the UIDAI officer
has not spent even a single rupee so far because of non-notification
of UIDAI.

The most hilarious joke during proceedings was that "the Authority
responsible for maintaining the world's largest computer database
cannot even put up a website of its own"

Sarbajit



Anivar Aravind
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"[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and
'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from
other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth

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"[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and
'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from
other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth