PM4K NEWS 025: ESTABLISHING IDENTITY A MOBILE CALL AWAY

Continuing with the PM4K NEWS Series on the Indian Unique ID Project here’s another update on India’s Unique ID Project.

NEW DELHI: Establishing the identity of any person would be a cell phone call away once the ambitious Unique Identity Project (UIP) becomes operational, perhaps making it the first such initiative across the world. The UIP, which aims to build a database on details of every Indian resident, will provide authorities to cross-check identities of persons they are dealing with using a cell phone, Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) Chairman Nandan Nilekani said in New Delhi on Saturday. "If anybody wants to confirm the identity of a person, all he has to do is to take the thumbprint or fingerprint of the person on a cell phone and send it across to the central database and receive authentication within seconds," he said delivering the CSIR Foundation Day Lecture.

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