Manual Castells. Vol 2.
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Jul 02, 11
"When I met Nandan Nilekani six months or so after he took over as chief of UIDAI, his question to me was that with him joining the government, what has changed? I said, the general public has a lot of expectations from him - from poverty alleviation to education, he seems to be holding answers to all problems that have plagued India since independence. And my biggest challenge? he asked. Delivering on those expectations was my answer.
Two years down the line, this has turned true. Aadhaar is today expected and ‘loosely’ positioned to be the sole panacea that will transform governance, make Bharat part of the growth process, plug leakages and slippages into welfare schemes and bring about prosperity all around. What is essentially an identity number has been over-romanticized as an ‘enabler’ to put India on a fast-track growth path by virtue of becoming a pivot around which all anti-poverty measures will rotate and also deliver. While Nandan's contention is that he has not promised any such thing, the fact is that he has also never denied the frenzied media reports on UID as a fix all solution. There seems to be a demand generating industry at work for UID and the UID enabled." -
Jul 02, 11
"Aadhaar is constantly referred to, as if it is a magic wand that will solve all of India’s problems. Except in fairy tales, there are no magic wands. Aadhaar is a limited tool. Bibek Debroy explains
Let’s backtrack a bit. There was originally a Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC) idea, started under the NDA government. This was meant to be a card issued to all India’s citizens and the Citizenship Act was amended and Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules were notified in 2003. This was driven by security motives and a desire to curb illegal migration. While MNIC has been subsumed into the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Aadhaar, and we may eventually get a register of Indian citizens, one remains skeptical. Do political parties wish to curb illegal migration? Had we really wished to do so, we would have instituted a system of legal work permits for neighbouring countries. Low-skill migration is often seasonal and legal work permits also facilitate return of migrants. Apart from the minor issue that we will have numbers rather than cards now, this has been a major change. Unique identity numbers (UIDs) will be given to residents and not citizens. Sure, as the name implies, “Aadhaar” is only a base and we can build on that. Perhaps Home Ministry will eventually use UIDs to sift residents from citizens. Until then, since Ajmal Kasab was one of the first to be enumerated in Census 2011, he will also presumably be one of the first to get UID." -
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1, Castells, Manuel (1997, second edition, 2004). "The Power of Identity", The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol. II. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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