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The historical need for identification, in [[India]] has mainly been for the public distribution system for food grains and is called the '[[Ration card]]'. |
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As this was an almost universally used for the procurement of food, everyone had a ration card and this was used for identification. |
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This however only had the names of users written by hand on them and often in many scripts and different spellings and hence has outlived its use for identification today. |
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[[Voter identity card]]s have been issued since the mid 1990s in many states and these have initially had black and white digital pictures. More recently they have colour digtal pictures. |
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The PAN card or the Permanent Account Number ([[PAN]]) Card , mainly used for income tax purposes (for all those who come into the income tax bracket) is however restriced to a minority of Indians who pay taxes and hence has not been a viable 'identity card' universally. |
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A recent government of India initiative has appointed [[Nandan Nilekani]] , a former executive of [[Infosys]] India, an Indian IT company of international standing as a chairman of the [[Unique Identification Authority of India]] (UIDAI) which aims to see that all 1.2 billion [[Indian citizen]]s get biometric Identity cards. |
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This is thought to assure proper distribution of [[welfare]] schemes to those who need it and prevent misuse of positive [[caste]] discrimination policies of the [[Government of India]]. |
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Revision as of 19:05, 3 August 2009
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