Unique Identity

Apparently, the Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification (UID) number will not be mandatory for people. According to the planning commission, UID is expected to be demand-driven and will be for people who are not comfortably placed in society and need the assistance of government welfare schemes. The population covered under welfare schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA), integrated child development scheme, nutrition programme for adolescent girls and benefits under the targeted food distribution systems will require the number, while people who are not covered by such welfare schemes might not necessarily require a unique identification number. Given the enormity of the task of covering over a billion people, we believe, it indeed makes sense to get the priorities correct.

The above has been received in my mail which I receive from Equitymaster.
Nandan Nilekani was offered the job with much fanfare on 26th June and now hardly two months have passed and the government has already got cold feet.
The spineless prime minister we have is already changing the very purpose for which UID was being asked.
UID was for purpose of national Security to have a record of our citizens.
The first dilution came when I read in the papers that UID would be issued to all people who lived in India, including terrorists who may have entered.
Now they are saying UID will be issued only to those who are entitled to welfare schemes.
They are changing the very purpose for which UID was required and Nandan was asked to join.
I would suggest that Nandan should resign and go back to Infosys as mentor.
He will soon have no job and the whole project will be dropped or curtailed drastically. Nandan is not required for that.Any IAS officer will do.

I suppose the next casuallty will be getting the black money from Switzerland.

No matter how much politicians change, like the dogs tail, they always remain crooked.