Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived at Tembhali village in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district at 12 past noon on Wednesday. He was accompanied by Congress president and National Advisory Committe chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
A young Indian from Tembhali, hoping to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and give him a gift, is sent away by security personnel.
Rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh picks images of India from his travels.
Prasanna D Zore and Uttam Ghosh travel to Tembhali village, in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district, where Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi initiated the process of distributing the much talked about Unique Identification Number to villagers.
In an interview with Sanjay Jog, Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani explains the objectives of the UID scheme and its challenges.
The Unique Identification Database Authority of India has been under the media glare ever since its launch and ever since former Infosys honcho Nandan Nilekani took over the reins as its chairman.
Human Rights activist Gopal Krishna speaks at length to Prasanna D Zore on what ails the UID project and why he thinks it should be scrapped.
Brief profiles of the 10 Indians who were the first to get their unique identity cards
347688003622 is the Unique ID number of Raju Makkan Madi of Tembhali village, one of the first recepients of the government's most ambitious schemes. The long wait for the UID cards is over for 33-year old Raju Makkan Madi, a labourer who earns Rs 75 a day.
A Cabinet note is expected to be moved to use Aadhaar numbers for electronic Know Your Customer verification of mobile subscribers.
It emerges that not only does the CIDR project fails the test of fairness, justness and reasonableness besides the test of not being fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary; it also fails the test of Arthashastra, Hadith and the Bible.
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