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Government May Bring Laws on Aadhaar, Bankruptcy as Money Bills
The government is likely to introduce legislations on Aadhaar and bankruptcy code as money bills with a view to ensuring their smooth passage in Parliament. "We will bring as many legislation as possible in the form of Money Bills. We will follow the same procedure for the bankruptcy law," a senior Finance Ministry official said.
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Parliament Standing Committee Seeks Legal Status for Aadhaar
The government has been asked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to provide a statutory backing to Aadhaar at the earliest and take immediate steps to address issues pertaining to the project.
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Centralised Voter Management System Can Remove Distortions: Nandan Nilekani
Putting in place a centralized voter management system can help eliminate distortions arising out of the political economy that has muddied voter registrations, says a new book co-authored by technocrat Nandan Nilekani.
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Chidambaram vs Nilekani: New round in turf war over biometrics
The Union Cabinet has asked Nandan Nilekani, who heads the massive Unique ID scheme, to ensure the use of biometric data gathered by the Home Ministry's National Population Register (NPR) Project for his Aadhaar project. This after Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote to the Prime Minister seeing his intervention and complaining that the NPR project h...
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Prime Minister meets senior ministers to sort out UID project
Amid differences between Home Ministry and Planning Commission over continuation of Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI Project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held discussions with senior Cabinet colleagues to resolve the issues.
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Full transcript: Nandan Nilekani on UID project, Aadhaar
Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project, Aadhaar
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Nandan Nilekani and the biometrics battle
UIDAI is, let's face it, not a zippy acronym. But the Unique Identification Authority of India - again, not a catchy title for a project - owes its very high-profile to its leader Nandan Nilekani, the alleged rivalry the scheme has stirred up in the Cabinet, and its mission statement - to provide to every Indian a card bearing a 12-digit ID or aadh...
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Chidambaram raises concerns about UID, say sources
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has raised an alarm over the manner and processes followed by Nandan Nilekani's Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards, partly for security reasons, and because Mr Nilekani's plans to collect bio-metric data have not been formally approved by the Cabinet.
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Government May Bring Laws on Aadhaar, Bankruptcy as Money Bills
The government is likely to introduce legislations on Aadhaar and bankruptcy code as money bills with a view to ensuring their smooth passage in Parliament. "We will bring as many legislation as possible in the form of Money Bills. We will follow the same procedure for the bankruptcy law," a senior Finance Ministry official said.
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Parliament Standing Committee Seeks Legal Status for Aadhaar
The government has been asked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to provide a statutory backing to Aadhaar at the earliest and take immediate steps to address issues pertaining to the project.
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Centralised Voter Management System Can Remove Distortions: Nandan Nilekani
Putting in place a centralized voter management system can help eliminate distortions arising out of the political economy that has muddied voter registrations, says a new book co-authored by technocrat Nandan Nilekani.
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Chidambaram vs Nilekani: New round in turf war over biometrics
The Union Cabinet has asked Nandan Nilekani, who heads the massive Unique ID scheme, to ensure the use of biometric data gathered by the Home Ministry's National Population Register (NPR) Project for his Aadhaar project. This after Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote to the Prime Minister seeing his intervention and complaining that the NPR project h...
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Prime Minister meets senior ministers to sort out UID project
Amid differences between Home Ministry and Planning Commission over continuation of Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI Project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held discussions with senior Cabinet colleagues to resolve the issues.
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Full transcript: Nandan Nilekani on UID project, Aadhaar
Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project, Aadhaar
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Nandan Nilekani and the biometrics battle
UIDAI is, let's face it, not a zippy acronym. But the Unique Identification Authority of India - again, not a catchy title for a project - owes its very high-profile to its leader Nandan Nilekani, the alleged rivalry the scheme has stirred up in the Cabinet, and its mission statement - to provide to every Indian a card bearing a 12-digit ID or aadh...
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Chidambaram raises concerns about UID, say sources
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has raised an alarm over the manner and processes followed by Nandan Nilekani's Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards, partly for security reasons, and because Mr Nilekani's plans to collect bio-metric data have not been formally approved by the Cabinet.
