Interesting facts - Out of 1.25 billion (125 crore) population of India, about 750 million (75 crore) do not have proper Identity document. Only 50 million people have Passport, 150 million have Driving License and 30 million pay Taxes. Lack of Identity deprives the poor land-less people from availing even the basic services. What is NPR? The National Population Register (NPR) is a comprehensive identity database to be maintained by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Government of India (RGI). The objective of creating this identity database is to: • Helps in better utilization and implementation of the benefits and services under govt schemes • Improve planning • Improve security The Government of India has initiated the creation of this database, by collecting specific information of all usual residents in the country during the House listing and Housing Census phase of Census 2011 during April 2010 to September 2010. It is planned that the collected information of the Usual Residency (aged 5 and above) of 17 states and 2 UTs will now be digitized, and biometric data will be collected from these residents for further integration. It is compulsory for every citizen of the country to register in a National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) as per Section 14A of the Citizenship Act 1955 as amended in 2004. The NPR is the first step towards preparation of the NRIC. Out of the universal dataset of all the usual residents, the subset of citizens would be derived after due verification of the citizenship status. Therefore, it is compulsory for all usual residents to register under the NPR. To know more about the NPR visit ditnpr.nic.in/FAQs.aspx...... What is Aadhar? The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is an Authority of the Government of India. The UIDAI was established in January-2009 under the Planning Commission of India. Its mandate is to issue Unique Identity to: 1. Residents of India (called Aadhaar) 2. Corporate entities like Companies, NGOs, Trusts, Political Parties etc. (Corporate-UID). Till now UIDAI has made progress on Aadhaar only. Work on Corporate-UID is yet to start, however it has been provisioned with its 12-digit Number System. Corporate-UID is intended to bring transparency on donations, financial transactions; and to prevent Wholesale-Corruption of money-laundering, benami transactions (i.e. under fictitious name), allocation of natural resources like Land, Spectrum, Mining of Sand, Iron-ore, Coal-blocks etc. Aadhaar is a 12-digit Personal Identification Number (PIN) issued to residents of India for life-time. Aadhaar is not mandatory to obtain; similarly as Driving License, Bank Account or Passport is not mandatory to obtain. However, Aadhaar is mandatory to get subsidy on LPG or to receive other services in compliance with the interim order dated 23-Sep-2013 of the Supreme Court. It is a unique Number and about 100 billion Aadhaar Numbers can be issued. The Aadhaar Number mapped with the demographics and bio-metric data of the Aadhaar-holder is stored in CIDR database. The data is – photograph, ten finger-print, iris date of birth, address, gender etc. In case of death of Aadhaar-holder, its status is marked accordingly in the CIDR database; thus Aadhaar is never reused. To know the difference between Aadhar and NPR visit the following link economictimes.indiatimes/slideshows/economy/all-you-want-to-know-about-uid-npr/difference-between-uid-npr/slideshow/18832339.cms financenectar/aadhar-card-vs-npr-card/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:12:30 +0000
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