PM steps in to resolve UID issue

25 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Increasing controversies in the execution of Unique Identification Number project between Home Ministry and Planning Commission has coerced Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to intervene and combat resolution. Dr. Singh, today, along with senior Cabinet colleagues held discussions with both the sides to resolve the UID issue.

'I think we have come to an agreement on how both the projects can proceed together without any difficulty ... the Cabinet Committee (on UIDAI) was rescheduled and will happen on Friday. We are quite hopeful that we will have a resolution of these issues in that meeting,' Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said after the meeting.

The collection of bio-metric data of all residents is the lynch-pin of all the problems. The Registrar General of India (RGI) maintained by the Home Ministry under which it has been mandated to collect the data through the NPR, the Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI has also been authorised to gather the information.

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