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UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA: A BRIDGE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC UPLIFT

Dr.P.Thillai Rajan, B.E., M.B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.,


Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration Thiagarajar College, Madurai

K.S.Hariharan, M.Com., M.B.A.,


Faculty Member, Department of Business Administration Thiagarajar College, Madurai

ABSTRACT

Economic growth is a means to Individual and National Development. This paper tries to explore the opportunities to attain economic uplift in our country with the help of Human Development by the government measures on Employment Generation. Unique Identification Authority of Indian (UIDAI) reveals the possibility of economic uplift through Human Development on Governments employment generation. With the effect on financial inclusion too, UIDAI links various development measures on it by getting the citizens from urban and remote integrative on Public Distribution System (PDS). Technology is used to reach the citizens on a mass way and the Governments stability on ensuring the delivery of its schemes which accompany Direct-Cash-Transfers. UIDAI is felt necessary to serve the purpose of identification of every citizen in a country from Birth to Death. In India, UIDAI serves a unique purpose to deliver the normal benefits to the citizens in urban and remote. UIDAI is designed to provide basic identity for a citizen to the mass and to ensure the normal benefits reach him with the Bioidentity provided by the citizen. With the economic survey on reference, Government measures on Human Development with the help of employment generation in the remote areas are linked with the agricultural sectors. UIDAI is seen as a tool to bridge the human financially exclusive with the help of governments schemes on employment generation to uplift the economy. Key Words: UIDAI, PDS, Human Development, Economic Uplift, Unique Identity

INTRODUCTION UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA UIDAI is the brain child of Planning Commission for effective monitoring of various schemes of the Government, initiated in the year 2006. UIDAI was set up as an attached office of the Planning Commission with a core team of 115 officers and with Regional Offices operating in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ranchi. A Technology Centre has been setup in Bangalore and UIDAI at present has a total sanctioned strength of 383 officers and subordinate staff. The UIDAIs HQ is at Delhi with a Chairman, a Director General and a Mission Director. The DG is to be assisted by Deputy Director Generals, Officers of the level of Joint Secretary, who are in charge of various wings. One of the DDGs heads the Finance wing and the DDGs would be supported by 21 ADGs, 15 Deputy Directors, 15 Section officers and 15 Assistants. The HQ has a total sanctioned strength of 146 officers and staff of which 85 have been appointed. Each of the Regional Offices is headed by a Deputy Director General (DDG). A Technology Development Unit (TDU) consists of experts in technology, legal framework, procurement of hardware and software etc is set-up in Bangalore to provide technical assistance. The UIDAI Biometrics Centre of Competence (UBCC) is being set up as a part of the organization needed to deliver on the mandate of issuing Unique IDs to all residents of India. The UBCC will build a core group of eminent scientists and engineers who specify initial biometric system and introduce new technologies time to time. The main objective of the UIDAI is to provide basic identity i.e. KYR (Know Your Resident) to the people, especially to the financially excluded people so that they can establish their identity to public and also the private organization across the country. By this identification the Government can provide the services to the specific persons concern who are actually eligible to get that services. The Government had taken various Schemes for the benefit of financially excluded people or for development of certain specific sectors of population like marginal agricultural farmers, landless labors, urban slum-dwellers, minority people, migrants, socially excluded groups, senior citizens for pensions etc.

UIDAI is an on-going project; tie-up with an information technology company designed an application to create a database of every citizen with the permanent Bio-metric identity like finger prints, eye-ball scanning and a proof to ensure the citizenship in our country. The political implicated project of citizen database for receiving benefits from the Government will also serve as general economy uplift by way of assigning welfare measures to the citizens. This on-going project will bridge the Government projects on Human Development for economic uplift of the country. It shall be viewed as far from the current economic progression of the country, but in the long-run the UIDAI can have the database of every citizen from Birth to Death. Foreign countries, in general and United States, in particular will pledge every citizen with the insurance care, medical and other benefits at the birth stage by way of providing SSN (Social Security Number). UIDAI will serve the same way in India as SSN does. Government of India has used the information technology to reach the citizens and make them benefited with the schemes on Direct-Cash-Transfers. The schemes include old-age

pension, compensation, and subsidiary and so on. With the large scale projects to come and as a front-running, the Government of India started collecting details of every citizen on a pilot basis to make it a database. The database can be used for the forthcoming projects wherein the Government needs to have a link with the citizens financially exclusive. The idea of a National Security System arose out of a concern for national security and illegal immigration. It was proposed that all citizens should be provided with a Multi-purpose National Identity Card (MNIC) in the near future. To eradicate illegal immigration, Passport is maintained and managed with e-mode (electronic) only at the initial level. The initiation of Passport is done only with the identity proof, provided by the government to the citizens without e-mode (eg. Ration card (print format), Voter Id Card (print format), ESI Card is issued with Bio-metric evidences and that too without a shared database). The schemes taken by the Government includes PDS, NREGA, JNNURM (BSUP), Old age Pension, etc. needs proper identification of the beneficiaries for effective utilization of the fund. The role that the Authority envisions is to issue a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that can be verified and authenticated in an online, cost-effective manner, which can eliminate duplicate and vague identities.

Every Government needs a database of its people to design the benefit scheme and to ensure whether it reaches its citizens on the way its designed. possibilities to make the Government schemes reach the citizens. Process of Enrolment for UID (Aadhaar) UIDAI found very easy to start with the Corporation wards with the help of Councilors from the wards and Polling Stations who dealt with the people for the elections and voter id card database. The process of the UIDAI consists of Enrollment Capture Bio-metric & Demographic Information Comparison with available Database (with google location maps) Done with the help of Govt officials works for Election polls. UIDAI can progress the

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC UPLIFT Human Development, Economic Empowerment and Higher standards of living are possible only by accurate identification of individuals, their identity and their economic status. Economic upliftment of any nation stems from the correct resource identification and its proper allocation, which is the ultimate aim of national development policy. As per the latest available Human Development Report (HDR) 2011 published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (which estimates the human development index [HDI] in terms of three basic capabilities: to live a long and healthy life, to be educated and knowledgeable, and to enjoy a decent economic standard of living), the HDI for India was 0.547 in 2011 with an overall global ranking of 134 (out of 187 countries) compared to 119 (out of 169 countries) in HDR 2010. The growth rate in average annual HDI of India between 200011 is among the highest, a finding also corroborated by the India Human Development Report (IHDR) 2011 brought out by the Institute of Applied Manpower Research and the Planning Commission. (Table-1)

Table-1 Indias Global Position in Human Development 2011 The various schemes that relates to basic capabilities of HDI (Health, Education, Poverty alleviation and Employment Generation) can be effectively implemented through UIDAI. The various schemes include: Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)/Right to Education (RTE) Mid-day Meals (MDM) Saakshar Bharat (SB)/ Adult Education Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Model Schools Scheme National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG)-Sabla Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)

The government is following a focused approach through various flagship schemes in the areas of poverty alleviation and employment generation to achieve inclusive development using UIDAI. The government has decided to initiate direct transfer of subsidy under various social schemes into beneficiaries' bank accounts. The transfer will be enabled through a payments bridge known as UIDAI Payment Bridge (UPB) wherein funds can be transferred into any UIDAI-enabled bank account on the basis of the UIDAI number. This eliminates chances of fraud/error in the cash transfer process. The UIDAI number will be linked to the beneficiary database so that ghosts/ duplicates are weeded out from the beneficiary list. To make withdrawal of money by the beneficiaries easier, more accessible and user friendly, micro ATMs will be set up by banks/ post offices throughout the country in an open manner particularly with the help of SHGs; community service centers (CSCs), post offices, grocery stores, petrol pumps, etc. in rural areas and accessible pockets. This is being done initially in 51 pilot districts across the country from 1 January 2013. Pilots on direct benefit transfer (DBT) have also been successfully conducted in the states of Jharkhand, Tripura, and Maharashtra to transfer monetary benefits related to rural employment, pension, the IAY, and other social welfare schemes. An important pilot is the fair price shops in East Godavari and Hyderabad districts of Andhra Pradesh which are being enabled to carry out online UIDAI authentication. In another important pilot with oil marketing companies (OMCs) in Mysore, delivery of LPG gas cylinders is being done only after UIDAI online authentication of customers. CONCLUSION For the effective implementation of UIDAI, the Government of India allocates an amount that has been almost doubled to Rs 2,620 crore in 2013-14 from the revised estimates in the current fiscal. The IMF in its annual report also welcomed government's move towards direct cash transfer of subsidies using the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Getting the payment infrastructure right is the first step for any Human Development and Economic uplift of the nation. To implement it the citizens are asked to have bank account with a nationalized bank in their area or at the instant the UIDAI would provide a Zero-Balance Savings Bank Account. UIDAI is the first and foremost and one-and-only largest Technical Project of our country for citizen identification, Human Development and Economic Upliftment.

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