This In Focus page looks at the impressive unique ID number project being rolled out by the Unique ID Authority of India. The first numbers will be issued between August 2010 to February 2011. Over five years, the Authority plans to issue 600 million UIDs.
The decision to include iris recognition in India's ambitious UID scheme has been recognised as pivotal in the success of the project…
The under-fire unique identity project in India has been robustly defended in a new report released by the UIDAI
Morpho (Safran group), one of the main biometric companies involved in the Indian UID project, reports that 120 million numbers have now been issued.
Suprema's RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 fingerprint live scanners have tested in full compliance and received final certification to be used in the UID project
India's landmark biometric identity project to issue unique Aadhaar numbers to every India resident is under serious threat following scathing remarks by the Indian Parliament.
MobileID BPR specifications for biometric capture devices should be extended in light of Indian UID number experience.
India's unique identification (UID) project is gearing up to pilot its biometric-based identity authentication service.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued an invitation for expression of interest (eoi) to suppliers of biometric SDKs.
Offenders in India could soon come up against the power of a centralised offender fingerprint and criminal records database.
The Indian government looks set to issue biometric Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards to taxpayers in an effort to combat the problem of fake and duplicate documents.
Suprema and 4G Identity Solutions have been awarded a contract to supply 4-4-2 Fingerprint Slap Scanners for India's National Population Register (NPR) project.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued its two millionth identification number under the Aadhaar program.
India’s Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) has registered its one millionth resident into the biometric-based AADHAAR programme.
A new report by Frost & Sullivan has found that biometrics is the fastest emerging technology in the Indian securities and identification market. But work needs to be done to improve quality of cheap imported devices.
The UID Authority of India has unveiled a new website that provides a live overview of biometric enrolments being performed across the country.
Here is an in-depth overview of how well biometric technology is performing in India's UID project. And, more crucially, it explains why performance is so good?
Government of India Press Information Bureau
http://pib.nic.in/release/press_rel.asp - Go to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Unique Identification Authority of India
http://uidai.gov.in/
Live Biometric Enrolment Information
http://portal.uidai.gov.in/uidwebportal/dashboard.do
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), takes time out to speak with Planet Biometrics. The project to biometrically enrol 1.2 billion people is the most ambitious in the world and, fittingly, he ends with a special message to biometric vendors.
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