UID data ‘Aadhaar’

Unverified UID data may risk security: PC
Amid reports of ‘unverified’ data being collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in order to issue ‘Aadhaar’ numbers, the Union home minister P Chidambaram has expressed concern over such an exercise saying there is real chance of inclusion of non-usual residents and creation of false profile in the project which may compromise internal security.
Besides, the home minister has also pointed out how the data being collected by the authority may amount to ‘duplication’ of the entire exercise leading to unnecessary expenditure when the Registrar General of India (RGI) is supposed to carry out enrolment .
In a letter to Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on November 8, Chidambaram said the process of the National Population Register (NPR) being prepared by the RGI have been carefully devised after considerable deliberations at the level of an empowered group of ministers (EGoM), pilot trials, consultations with state governments. The home minister said the UIDAI process of enrolment is based on production of documents and, in the absence of documents, through an ‘introducer’-based mechanism. Sources in the ministry said that the issue was likely to be taken up in the Cabinet soon as the home minister was keen to bring it up as early as possible.