Opinion To what end?
Apropos Jaithirth Raos article,I want to make sure I understand. The unique ID project is a plan that does not actually have a purpose?
• Apropos Jaithirth Raos article,I want to make sure I understand. The unique ID project is a plan that does not actually have a purpose? It has technological goals,which when achieved will be technological feats. (Trust me,he says,and I do!) But for the rest of it? The MHA,the MEA or whatever wants it,the babus and those politicos,let them work it out?
Personally,I have applied for and received gas,telephones,a car,educational degrees,a driving licence,a PAN card,a voters ID card and a passport without needing to prove that I,the applicant,myself exist. I am banging down doors,shoving in queues,shouting through little windows,and the government has so far recognised this without a problem as proof that I exist. What the government asks for is proof that I live where I say I live,proof that I am Indian,proof that I am as old as I say I am.
The unique ID will link across many systems,we are told,even all the systems that man hasnt yet imagined,but the fact is that the many private and public sector systems of India have never before needed proof of being,the only thing it seems this project can provide. If I havent understood anything,however,or my imagination is dry,then Rao must write another article. Supply,sir,a point about the final purpose of this project. Is it only that it will free us from photocopy attestation?
Shruti Debi
New Delhi
HRD initiatives
• Human resource development vis-à-vis migration is important,and needs to be seen in the right intellectual perspective. As a matter of serious concern,affecting the countrys development,everybody should be responsible and involved,not just the minister in charge. India should benefit from focus on human resource as a phase of development. Brain drain should be stopped; this is a developed form of managing human resources,which should be deployed for further progress of the country. But instead of formal work discipline,a more hearty initiative is needed from everybody.
Rathin K. Chanda
Chinsurah
Scary scuffle
• Your editorial Altitude sickness rightly observes that whosoever may be held responsible for what happened aboard the Air India Sharjah-Delhi flight 30,000 feet above sea level the fact will remain that human lives were endangered. It was something unprecedented and extremely shocking. One shudders to think of the passengers on board. It is Air Indias callousness towards passenger safety that a pilot with a history of bad behaviour continued to fly. More than others,a pilot is responsible for the flights and passengers safety. The pilot must be given exemplary punishment.
M.C. Joshi
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