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Comment Wont Change a thing.. (Score 1) 167

Say what you will, but I know India is too corrupt for anything. People commenting on the fact that there is too much illegal immigration from all the places in India, tend to forget that getting something like this ID is going to be easy for those people too once it is known how the system works. The government officials are too corrupt and too poor to not take a bribe for any work. So once you have enough money and know correct people, getting anything done in India is not a big deal. Now to deal with such a problem, the government has to start off by implementing the rules to curb the population. I know not one politician would have any balls to speak about the issue. Hell there are some politicians who have more kids themselves and will try to stop any kind of legislation to be passed for the same. None of the politicians give a dime about what the common man will suffer. Providing basic facilities for these people is just a promise for every politician in India and it shall always remain that way. For all this to change, may be the current and probably the next generation will have to make more compromises than many are willing to but change doesnt come overnight and it certainly doesnt without a cost.
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India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards 167

angrytuna writes "The Unique Identification Authority is a new state department in India charged with assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and biometric ID card. The program is designed to alleviate problems with the 20 current types of proof of identity currently available. These problems range from difficulties for the very poor in obtaining state handouts, corruption, illegal immigration, and terrorism issues. Issuing the cards may be difficult, however, as less than 7% of the population is registered for income tax, and voter lists are thought to be inaccurate, partly due to corruption. The government has said the first cards will be issued in 18 months."
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Submission + - India to issue over a billion biometric id cards (timesonline.co.uk)

angrytuna writes: "The Unique Identification Authority is a new state department in India charged with assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and biometric ID card. The program is designed to alleviate problems with the 20 current types of proof of identity currently available. These problems range from difficulties for the very poor in obtaining state handouts, corruption, illegal immigration, and terrorism issues.

Issuing the cards may be difficult, however, as less than 7% of the population is registered for income tax, and voter lists are thought to be inaccurate, partly due to corruption. The government has said the first cards will be issued in 18 months."

Comment Re:Inevitable (Score 1) 563

True that everything has a shelf life and may be this product is loosing its cool in US or some other country like UK but there many other countries in the world who might be doing a lil catching up on these gadgets.. Also I heard some news about Microsoft coming up with something new soon. Once everyone owns something that every other person has, they start to look for something new. Thats just the way a human mind works..Hopefully Microsoft dont delay their music player release like they have done with Windows Vista...

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