Biometric Identity Cards For Largest 1.2 Billion People
Posted: Friday, November 05, 2010
by Gaurav Virk
Human Rghts Online
The government of India to create Biometric Identity Cards issued to its 1.2 billion people and be called Aaadhar. This identity cards is to address concerns about security issues like the fight against terrorism. This project is to open the jobs amounting $ 3 billion for major IT companies . The e-governance is the largest database of biometric identity cards for identification, which has never been done anywhere in the world and involve many challenges
Aaadhar intend to become the biometric identity cards number of the most advanced in the world. The issue of identity cards, biometric identification is 16 digits with biometric database, fingerprint, iris, personal information, a chip for easy scanning, and more. The Biometric Identity Cards process must be completed by the year 2011. The scheme is managed by a new government agency called the Unique Identification Authority of India. It should cost more than $ 3 billion, but as with all government projects, will probably be much more expensive and technology.
Aaadhar, the proposed biometric identity card is to create a platform that will collect information on the identity of each resident of India and later to authenticate the identity. Biometric identity cards are intended to be used by the government for the leaks on tax issues, safety, welfare, health services and subsidies, etc. It is intended to be used by commercial service providers to identify mobile connections, driving license cards, bank accounts cards, operating accounts, stocks, property registration and identity cards business, rationing cards, etc. Biometric identity cards aims to reduce or eliminate duplicate identities for the effective delivery . Today, the use of evidence of people in several Indian identity, including ration cards, identity cards number of voters, the identity cards number of driver's license, passport number or identity cards number mobile, etc. This largest- Biometric identity card will be more than the social security number in the United States.
The identification of biometric identity cards also communicate details of births, deaths, marriages, passport numbers, bank data, and data of ration cards from 1.2 billion people of India. Biometric identity cards would be issued to citizens in the form of smart cards and carry personal identification information and the biometric and photo of the citizen. Biometric identity cards is to help identify the target population for government programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, National Rural Health Mission and Bharat Nirman. The other objective is to address concerns about security issues like the fight against terrorism. Certificates of education from compulsory primary education to higher study for 1.2 billion people of India, shall bear Biometric identity cards number and this will become basis to subsidy, if any.
What are the main challenges for identity cards, biometric identification for the largest of 1.2 billion people?
Biometric identity cards is difficult to go through countless challenges of information technology in creating the largest biometric database to date. There will be a thousand challenges to the computing community as it will be the largest biometric database, which has never been done. The fundamental difference is that the technologies used in similar projects such as e-governance in some developed countries are facing a much smaller population than India. In other countries, the size of the population requires a database of tens of millions. The actual acceptance rate of 99% is reported in the test performance of a system. The challenges are on the precision measurement possible because fingerprints and database size reduced from 50 million to 1 billion has not been sufficiently analyzed. Second, the quality of fingerprints, the most important variable in determining the details have not been studied in depth in the Indian context. The importance of information to ensure consistency, quality images and interoperability between devices reliable biometric capture biometric capture software and services. The challenges of information technology are the elimination of double identity during the registration procedure itself. The main method used to detect the duplicates will be compared to all biometric characteristics, which requires high quality images and consistent.
Biometric identity cards will be captured for authentication by departments and agencies that provide commercial services. They are generally collection devices and software provider different biometric devices and software used by Aaadhar. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate these biometric standards to ensure reliable interoperability at a reasonable cost during the authentication phase which Aaadhar achieve its goal.
The challenges of information are used to collect fingerprints and analyze quality. Some categories have been made. Also, there is enough evidence to suggest that the fingerprint data of rural India can be as good as others when appropriate operating procedures are followed and high-quality devices are used. There are also data suggest that the quality decreases, if sufficient attention is not given to business processes. The challenges of the information is to improve the process or to identify and remove duplicates on the use of demographic data and biometric data. For example, when a double is suspect, there would be a manual review of all available information on the person, and a review of relevant demographic data. Face, fingerprint and iris recognition are commonly used in various types of identity cards and challenges of information implies that public acceptance for these biometric identifiers is widespread. The challenges of information are biometric software that must be given to local information. Listening software can generate additional errors
Gaurav Virk, the author has a strong motivation to support human-rights and publish research on rights articles worldwide info: He is currently a final year student of computer applications (MCA) and Diploma in Human Rights.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)What next? Does the government want to chip (like id chips in dogs) all newborn babies?The anti-terrorism excuse doesn't actually ring true.The 7/7 bombers in the UK would have had ID cards as they were British citizens, so how would being having an ID card have stopped that terrorist attack?Makes no sense, apart from governments feeling the need to own its citizens.Big Brother strikes again!Bill Mitchell, welcome your comments.
Biometric ID card will be like the social security number in the United States, but the goal is identification of advanced.It is to be used for several purposes, as stated in the article, including questions of security checks.
I agree, the ID can not stop terrorists attack.I agree that to be an aviator, ID is not a problem. The fear of an attack Terroist is everwhere, more is in west. Biometric social security number will help security checks of the common people. I will help verification to claim may subsidised services.
I give you example, how important is it dog id chips for man. A day before, President Obama to meet Indurtialist Bombay. U.S. Embassy invited specific leading Indurtialist India including Top Minister and Head of State Govt Mahashtra. Bur asked advannce their identification number as the passport number and the number income tax for security checks. Many of them refused, giving reasons that if you do not know our identification, why you have invited us?. Deputy Chief Minister of state says ---that you are our guest in our country, we are to care for your safety, you do not ask these numbers identification. clarifying U.S. embassy said sorry.
I think India sounds as if it is advancing very quickly, which I think is wonderful. On BBC last night a political correspondent was speaking, and he said he believed India is on its way to becoming a major power in the world.Jennifer Stewart, It is true that India is growing very quickly of information techonology. A day earlier, President Obama enjoyed E-Governance of India, which is recently interoduced to villages of India and noted that it could be a model for underdeveloped countries .. I doubt, India can be super-power in near future, Its half of the population in villages illeterate is still alive without quality food and proper medical facilities and there is no control on population.
Good job. I have written and given seminars and teachings for years concerning this. All i can say is "Even at the door." Keep us updated.I thank you for your support for biometric identity cards. In my opinion it should be implemented worldwide through the United Nations
You're making India proud. God bless you for doing that.You have supplied some great information. Take care and keep writing good stuffs...Chiradeep, thank you, sir, for comments. I think these cards would change the face of the individual with the government. It would be impossible to fake university degree, income tax number, driving license etc as this number is linked to all records indivdual. It intend to rectify many bogus or incorrect government records. It would be completed by the end of 2011
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