5436 - Aadhaar Muddle - No longer a puddle' - CAG Audit warranted - Tax India On Line

Aadhaar Muddle - No longer a puddle' - CAG Audit warranted  http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/inside2.php3?filename=bnews_detail.php3&newsid=16970 FEBRUARY 12, 2013 By Naresh Minocha, Our Consulting Editor "GOVERNMENT of India is contemplating to issue the multi-purpose  photo identity cards to all citizens. The proposal is to issue  multipurpose National Identity Cards to all citizens of 14 years and  above. The persons below 14 years are to be compulsorily  registered under Registration of Births & Deaths Act, 1969  and the names of such persons are proposed to be included in  father's/mother's cards. Separate coloured cards are proposed to  be issued to non-citizens. The multipurpose National Identity Cards  (MNICs) are proposed to be used for the purpose of issuing  passports, driving licences, ration cards, health care, admission in  educational institutions, employment in public/private sectors, life  and general insurance as also for maintenance of land records and  urban property holding etc.," said the then Home Minister L.K. Advani in Rajya Sabha on 10 th June 1998. He added: "Multipurpose Identity Cards Scheme would in course of  time replace the half completed identity cards scheme planned by  the Election Commission earlier. All steps would be taken in coordination with the Election Commission (EC).” Click here to read Full Article