Smarter Aadhaar Card For A Smarter And Meticulous India

Abstract

The Unique Identification Number (UIDAI) – Aadhaar, is a unique number that is derived to identify every citizen of India, including the Non Residential Indians (NRI). This document was introduced to serve as an authentic identity proof for individuals. UIDAI is a secure document which consists of iris scan and fingerprint scan, that is person specific and identity theft is not very easy, making it a robust and versatile document.Exploring the robustness and versatility of this document this paper focuses on venturing out to identify the diverse applicability of the UIDAI to benefit both the government and the Indian citizens.

In order to widen the scope of Aadhaar card, this paper proposes to use the Aadhaar card number to collect and store data such as demographic, health, education, employment, financial, police records of every resident of India so that the government can utilise the information, in order to monitor, analyse and frame policies and schemes in the field of education, employment,pension, scholarship, health schemes, dole, subsidiaries to farmers and low income people,in order to up-lift the beneficiaries thus helping India to become a developed country.

This paper also proposes a credit score based system to identify cluster, of people based on occupational and financial requirements and to credit their bank accounts directly with government subsidiaries, dole, scholarship, health benefitsand pension. This ensuresaccessibility to schemes across the county.

This paper also proposes to link smart card to the Aadhaar number to curb illegal procedures and to ensure the benefits reaches to the beneficiary and is not squandered by the middle man ensuring traceability. The smart card can also be used to have quick access to health history at times of emergency and so on