[Reader-list] UK to Kill off National ID Card Program

[Bipin Trivedi]

Dear Taha,

UK government if comes back from the UID path than they are making mistake. Perhaps new government pole promises (for getting vote only) forced them to take such step. Anyway as far as India is concerned, she is highly terrorists affected state along with highly populated state, unlike UK where terrorism is negligible and no population explosion threat compared to India, so India needs such UID denomination to counter terrorism and handle large population systematically.

If you want to give vote to BJP for oppose this UID project than you are mistaken. Since this UID project idea was initiated by BJP/NDA only particularly to handle/counter illegal migration and terrorist infiltration. However they could not implement at that time since study was going on. I don’t think that BJP will oppose this scheme. My series of earlier mail if you will see that there is no communal agenda of BJP at all. Anti terrorist agenda if counted as communal agenda than there is different thing! What BJP did earlier is to counter vote bank politics of congress since year particularly appeasing minority unnecessarily and after came to power NDA had not taken any single step against any community. On the contrary other parties like congress, CPI and other regional parties proved communal in many occasions. For ex WB government allowed Bangladeshis migration is one type of communal and anti national step only.

You have posted OUTLOOK story. Please note that this is pilot project to know any drawback to implement it and can be rectify with this experience to put it in general. Fingerprint is the key criteria for this project and without that this project is of no use. High security zone, passport process, visa process you have to give fingerprint than what's the reason to oppose this. Since, now India become highly security zone considering terrorist threat. 

I don’t understand why you people afraid of leaking of data. Have you heard any leakage from Passport office or RTO or Ration card or Election department about the leakage. All these are in practice since 15 to 50 years. So, the argument itself is irrelevant like the identity argument, since census will have more identities parameters than UID and all who oppose UID welcome the census procedure or did not raise a single word against census!

Thanks
Bipin