GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF PLANNING
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 292
ANSWERED ON 14.03.2012
REJECTION OF UIDAI BILL
292 . Shri VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR
Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:-
(a) the details of the issues raised by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and the reasons for rejection of UIDAI Bill as reported in the media;
(b) the steps taken to resolve the issue;
(c) the number of persons who have either been issued the Unique ID numbers or are yet to get the same after having been enrolled;
(d) the total amount allocated till date for the implementation of this scheme and the amount spent so far; and
(e) the agencies engaged for the purpose and the cost per bio-metric identity being incurred?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE FOR PLANNING, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCE
(a): The report of the Standing Committee on Finance on the National Identification Authority of Bill, 2010 was presented by the Committee to the Lok Sabha on 13th December, 2011 and laid in the Rajya on 13th December, 2011. The Committee has, inter alia, given its observations on giving number to every resident and not restricting the Unique identification scheme to citizens, reliability of technology, legislative safeguards for data protection and duplication of work with
the National Population Register exercise.
(b): The observations of the Committee are under consideration of the Government.
(c): 13.80 crore aadhaar have been issued as on 7th March, 2012 against 19.29 resident data packets received at the Central Identities Data Repository.
(d): Cost estimates of 8, 962.06 crore have been approved for Phases I, II and III of the scheme for the period upto March, 2017. Out of this, the year wise budgetary allocation and expenditure incurred so far is as under:
Year Budget Estimates Revised Estimates Expenditure incurred
(in crore of Rs) (in crore of Rs) (in crore of Rs)2009-10 120.00 30.92 26.21
2010-11 1900.00 960.66 268.41
2011-12 1470.00 1200.00 773.24
(up to
February 2012)
(e): Enrolment of residents is carried out by Registrars who collect biometric and demographic data through enrolment agencies. Registrars can be Departments of the State Governments, Public sector banks or financial institutions. The UIDAI has been giving assistance to Registrars at the rate of ` 50 per successful aadhaar generation.