The UID and India's poor

April 24, 2012 11:52

And another one from the WSJ on the UID: When India embarked on its unique ID project in the fall of 2010, pledging to distribute unique 12-digit numbers to 1.2 billion people, the hope was that hundreds of millions of Indians who don't have a passport, driver's license or other credible identity document would get one -- and with it, a ticket to essential government and private sector services. Read

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