By NNN-PTI,
Bangalore, India : Nandan M Nilekani, who was appointed as head of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI), today said the government would take steps to end ID card duplication leading to fraud and create a network of verification and authentication.
“The UIAI would create a centralised, national database of Indian residents,” the former Infosys co-chairman told reporters here after meeting Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who felicitated him on his new assignment.
The key issue was to ensure that there were no duplicates, he said.
“…the big problem today with identity is that many systems have lot of duplicates which lead to fraud,” he said.
The idea is to use bio-metric, fingerprints or whatever to make sure that people have a unique number.