UID is safe - Nilekani
ACCORDING to Unique Identification Authority of India Chairman Nandan Nilekani, “The Unique Identification System has an inbuilt security and privacy component that ensured that the data from the data bank could not be accessed except on grounds like national security”.
The project would help in delivery of government's welfare schemes, boost financial inclusion beside enabling other service providers like banks, insurance, to tap on the UID for authentication purposes.
He said the UID could also help in setting up of micro ATMs as part of the government's objective of bringing in financial inclusion. Through the UID a grocery store in a village could help a beneficiary of welfare scheme to withdraw cash by simply providing the UID number.
He said that the private sector could learn from the rigorousness of the government sector.