Seeds of JAM trinity sown in FY15 helps to develop COVID-19 vaccination digital infra: SurveyEven before COVID arrived, India had laid down the strategy for mass vaccination as year-long programmes were running for several other dis...
31 Jan, 2023, 05.36 PM IST
Aadhaar At 10: Taking stock of India's ambitious mission to provide unique digital identity to allAn ambitious study covering 1,67,000 Indians by development consulting firm Dalberg sheds light on people’s experiences and perceptions. Th...
07 Jan, 2020, 11.08 AM IST
View: This one Indian innovation could transform AfricaChina’s largesse has benefited Africa. But Indian Aadhaar could be what African countries really need
08 Oct, 2018, 06.51 AM IST
What you don't know about AadhaarThe study found that the Aadhaar has more self-reported errors than the voter ID database.
18 May, 2018, 01.07 PM IST
Aadhaar will identify genuine beneficiaries of schemes: Centre to SCAppearing for the Centre, Attorney General K K Venugopal said Aadhaar would not only help identify the beneficiaries of various schemes, it...
21 Mar, 2018, 09.24 PM IST
Biometrics will be the thumb rule in 2018Biometrics will come of age in 2018 with more smartphones being equipped with technologies like fingerprint, face recognition and iris scan...
31 Dec, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
Aadhaar required for availing food under nutrition missionUnion Minister Virendra Kumar said the use of Aadhaar as identity document for delivery of services or benefits or subsidies simplifies the...
22 Dec, 2017, 04.39 PM IST
Aadhaar-PAN linkage gets 'likes', but data leak big overhangThe Finance Act, 2017, has made it a must for taxpayers to link their PAN to the 12-digit Aadhaar or the enrolment ID at the time of applic...
14 May, 2017, 06.33 PM IST
Aadhaar can be used to integrate data for better results: Chief Statistician T C A AnantAadhaar can be used as a common link among the people of the country to integrate administrative data to understand the actual position on ...
08 Oct, 2015, 03.00 AM IST
Five poorest families in every village may soon get extra government attentionThe beneficiaries would be identified by the panchayats and would be provided direct central assistance through various government schemes.
29 May, 2015, 11.23 AM IST
For Modi government, UID the wild card that came goodThe Aadhaar card has emerged as the world's largest biometric identification database, way ahead of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
19 May, 2015, 12.10 PM IST
Aadhaar is world’s largest biometric ID system, shows dataUttar Pradesh had the highest number of enrolments with 10.48 crore cards while Maharashtra had 9.19 crore and West Bengal 6.12 crore up to...
27 Apr, 2015, 10.43 AM IST
Aadhaar to improve delivery of poverty elimination schemesThe Aadhaar programme has the potential to improve targeting of poverty elimination social sector schemes as per a World Bank report, Parli...
04 Dec, 2014, 07.35 PM IST
Economic Survey 2013: Phase-II of UIDAI project aims to enrol 40 crore residents by 2014The second phase of UIDAI project targets to enrol 40 crore residents by 2014, the Economic Survey 2012-13 said today.
27 Feb, 2013, 07.24 PM IST
- Budget 2012 reinforces UIDAI’s existence
The government wants to lower its expenditure on central subsidies to 1.75% of GDP by 2015-16, from an estimated 2% in 2012-13.
16 Mar, 2012, 06.33 PM IST
Budget 2012-13: Govt spending seen driving domestic IT sectorGovt spend on technology this year is likely to cross record levels with UIDAI and other technology driven projects in various arms of govt...
16 Mar, 2012, 03.38 PM IST
Economic Survey 2011-12: Aadhaar a potential project to improve public serviceAadhaar project for providing unique identity numbers to residents, has huge potential to improve the delivery of social sector schemes.
15 Mar, 2012, 05.02 PM IST