[Reader-list] Orissa to add 12 more specifications to UID

[Vinay Baindur]

Orissa to add 12 more specifications to UIDPTI | 08:09 PM,Sep 29,2010

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 30 (PTI) Orissa government today decided to include at
least a dozen more specifications to the Unique Identity (UID), christened
as "Aadhaar", a national project launched to document profile of every
individual in the country. This was decided at a high level meeting attended
by chief secretary, director census, Orissa and other officials. While UID
would have details of an individual like his or her name, sex and other
datas, the state government has decided to include information like card
holders ration card number, BPL/APL number, NREGS data, Driving License
number, PAN number, photo i-card number, passport number, kissan and credit
card number, LPG consumer number, Rastriya Swasthya Vikas Yojana number,
pension I-d number and pass book number. As the Central government is
undertaking a big exercise to prepare UID, it would be appropriate to add
some more data regarding a person, said chief secretary B K Patnaik adding
that six important places in the state were identified to execute the
gigantic work. Stating that the work for the bio-metric data collection for
preparation of UID would start in December from eight KBK
(Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput) districts, he said demographic data capturing
work had already been started by identifying as many as 95 lakh families.
The people of Orissa could expect getting UID from May/June, 2011, an
official said adding a sub-committee had been formed under the chairmanship
of additional development commissioner (ADC) where secretaries of housing
and urban development, IT, labour and employment and civil supplies and
consumer welfare department, were members.The director of census will
negotiate between the state government and the Centre.