The Grand Design

The Unique Identification number project has become a little more ambitious now.

Recall the launch of the project by Manmohan Singh, who presented 12-digit electronic IDs to people of Tembhli village in Maharashtra, where electricity and literacy are still barely a reality? Well, the Unique Identification (UID) number project has become a little more ambitious now. The UID Authority of India has announced that by October, up to one million Indians will be enrolled each day for the issuing of cards. That implies enrolling 600 million Indians in the next three years. “At present, 100,000 enrollments are done per day. Fulfilling the one million target depends on whether individual states are able to engage the required manpower,” says a senior official at the UIDAI.