[Reader-list] UID CARD BENEFIT

[Shashidhar]

Dear Mr. A.K. Malik

I have spoken to some of the NGO's concerned and they are not very sure, some of them were saying that there is no security, when govt and military servers can be hacked what is the planning commission, other reaons are vote bank politics, caste differentiation, too much of expenditure on nothing and many more such reason. I think people generally do not like being identified, I remember a huge hue and cry when PAN was made compulsory, when voting is being made compulsory.... compulsorily we will not like doing anything and given a change we will choose not to do anything, such is our state.

Regards,
Shashidhar

-----Original Message-----
From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of A.K. Malik
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:16 PM
To: Taha Mehmood
Cc: Sarai List
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] UID CARD BENEFIT

Dear Mr Taha,
                Why do you want to complicate a simple thing? Ask  an uneducated person on the road, he will tell you the benefits of an ID Card.
And Mr Shashidhar why NGOs are opposing the Project, to my mind it is going to stop the money (liberally granted by the Govt quite oftely without audit as pointed by CAG) many of them are minting with fake numbers/details which would become difficult once the UID is in force. 
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Tue, 5/11/10, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] UID CARD BENEFIT
> To: "Shashidhar" <shashidhar at butterfliesindia.org>
> Cc: "sarai-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 5:40 PM
> Dear Bipin and Shahidhar,
> 
> Thank you for your responses.
> 
> Enumeration is fine with me. You count a person, you attach
> a figure.
> Simple and straightforward. Any act of governance needs
> that. I do not
> have a problem with it. Identity is a tricky issue. It's a
> fuzzy
> issue. The word is fuzzy. Is it not vague? Does it not mean
> many
> things? Can it be be categorized by a singular notion?
> 
> The GOI is transferring 1.5 Lakh crore rupees in the name
> of identity.
> And Bipin I do not know who can define a unit of
> measurement of
> identity. I am not interested in who. I am not bothered by
> who. Who
> can be tom, dick or harry or a sita or a gita or ram or a
> rahim for
> all I care.
> 
> I am interested in How and Why and What. So I would be glad
> if you
> could forgo who and tell me how identity can be measured,
> by what
> means and why those means represent a true measurement of a
> person's
> identity?
> 
> Please allow me explain what I mean-
> 
> If the pharmacist makes a drug without going into the
> nature of what
> constitutes the elements of that drug, what does that drug
> do, what
> illness can it alleviate and gives that drug to a doctor
> and the
> doctor prescribes that drug to you without diagnosing you,
> without
> verifying the nature of your illness and without
> establishing whether
> this drug is the only drug amongst all the drugs which are
> available
> in a market which can alleviate your illness.
> 
> Will you take that drug Bipin? Simply because a doctor of
> medicine has
> given it to you? Will you be so charmed by the packaging of
> the drug
> that you will suspend doubt? Will you be so in awe of man
> in white
> clothes that you will give in because the name tag in front
> of his
> room says MD MBBS?  Or will you allow doubt to enter,
> Bipin? Think!
> 
> In the similar manner, can we not think about the people of
> India as a
> body? Are we not told that some parts of our body are
> getting weak
> because they are not nourished? Are we not prescribed a
> medicine in
> the name of UID? Is it not our responsibility to doubt,
> both as
> individuals and as a collective, to assess whether such a
> drug is good
> or not? Because if it a bad drug it might effect the life
> of our
> entire body which includes you and me Bipin. Who would we
> blame then,
> Bipin. Governments come and go. That's the nature of
> governance. But
> we are here to stay. That's the nature of people.
> 
> UID is build on the idea of identity. Identity is a fuzzy
> notion. It
> is a vague idea. It means many things to many people. It
> might mean
> one thing to many people. It might also mean many things to
> one
> person. Or it might mean nothing to no one. or every thing
> to every
> one. In every case the meaning, the nature of identity is
> inconsistent. Should we not allow this inconsistency in
> meaning of
> identity to remain?
> 
> Warm regards
> 
> Taha
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