The News Minute | July 24, 214 | 4 pm IST
After lambasting the Aadhaar card scheme during its election campaign, how did the NDA-led government end up increasing the proposed allocation for the scheme?
A report in The Economic Times talks of a meeting between the former chairperson of the UIDAI Nandan Nilekani met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on July 1. Four days later, the Prime Minister sought an enrolment target of 100 crore under the Aadhaar scheme.
The report says: “There is enough evidence to suggest that the crucial July 1 meeting between Nilekani, the prime minister and the FM, brought forth a volte face in the government stand on UIDAI.”