Along with others, they also oppose the logical next step in welfare reform that UID enables.
The UID has been mandated to carry out de-duplication of the biometrics and issue the UID numbers.
He also has a longstanding rivalry with the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, who is associated with UID.
Because the UID system is an open platform, businesses will be able to graft inventive applications onto it.
Even with strict controls for privacy, the UID scheme will help companies understand more about the population they serve.
The UID scheme ought to allow for greater control over such small loans.
But for all the headaches, applying the UID to an expanding and reforming welfare system opens the way for profound social change.
Employed by Wipro, a technology firm and agent for the UID project, he has to get through 40 to 50 residents a day.
Some were procedural, including a demand that UID be based on law passed by parliament, not, as now, on a mere executive order.
To get a sense of the scale of UID's achievement, linger at a mosquito-ridden enrolment centre in Uttan Gaon, a coastal village north of Mumbai.
Over five years, India plans to issue 600 million UID numbers.
The UID project facilitates this by enabling the opening of bank accounts as well as by providing an infrastructure for payments and remittances across this vast country.
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Though the Ministry of Home Affairs has collected the biometrics (ten finger prints and photograph) of around 0.8 million people under the coastal NPR project and around 10.2m people under the NPR project, it has not sent any data to the UID for generating UID numbers.
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