The Centre on Friday gave a major fillip to its ambitious Unique Identity project for citizens, by proposing a Rs. 1,900 cr. budgetary allocation for it, a nearly 16-fold increase. Part of this would be used to fund an incentive of Rs. 100 for every enrolled person below poverty line.
The project headed by Nandan Nilekani was allocated Rs. 120 crore in the last budget.
Welcoming the allocation, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) said it would help build technology and implementation infrastructure and establish its operations in time to start issuing UID numbers to residents by August 2011.
