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Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution Paperback – 21 July 2017
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- Print length280 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWestland
- Publication date21 July 2017
- Dimensions12.9 x 1.8 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-109789386224958
- ISBN-13978-9386224958
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About the Author
His path-breaking book Accidental India fetched him acclaim as a public intellectual. A journalist for over three decades, Aiyar has covered every parliamentary election since 1984. His 1991 scoop on India pledging its gold reserves drew world attention to the crisis in the economy which consequently compelled liberalisation. Aiyar has analysed every Budget since liberalization.
As a columnist Aiyar specializes in the interface of politics and economics. He has authored a study on India’s socio-economic fault lines and its hundred worst districts. His investigation on twenty-five years of political corruption is part of an anthology. He has been a Wolfson Chevening Fellow at Cambridge University where he studied the lifecycles of emerging economies. Aiyar is a Visiting Fellow at the IDFC Institute.
He is currently working on his third book and policy research on evolving demographics and implications for the next economy.
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- ASIN : 938622495X
- Publisher : Westland (21 July 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 280 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9789386224958
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386224958
- Item Weight : 347 g
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.81 cm
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SHANKKAR AIYAR is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist and author.
His path-breaking book Accidental India fetched him acclaim as a public intellectual. A journalist for over three decades, Aiyar has covered every parliamentary election since 1984. His 1991 scoop on India pledging its gold reserves drew international attention to the crisis in the economy which consequently compelled liberalization. Aiyar has analyzed every Budget since 1991.
As a columnist Aiyar specialises in the interface between politics and economics. He has authored a study on India’s socio-economic fault lines and its hundred worst districts. His investigation on twenty-five years of political corruption is part of an anthology. He has been a Wolfson Chevening Fellow at Cambridge University where he studied the life cycles of emerging economies. Aiyar is a visiting fellow at the IDFC Institute. He is currently working on his third book and conducting policy research on evolving demographics and their implications for the next economy.
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TLDR : Social, Political, Technical History of Aadhar with an insight into the issues of security and privacy. 5/5
Review :
This was a quick and simple read (1 day).
The book talks about the genesis of the Aadhaar idea, setting up of UIDAI, the joining of hands of bureaucracy and politicians and technocrats and business people, the technological challenges (de-duplication), the roll-out procedure, the departmental and electoral politics and finally the judicial oversight into the UID. Of particular interest are the tidbits on why there is an Aadhaar card, who coined the term Aadhar and why, how various states (including Gujarat) responded to UID, how the Aadhar worked under UPA and NDA and the various subsidy programmes like Direct Benefit Transfer that benefited. To be fair the also highlights the some times hilarious and some times heart breaking mishaps with Aadhar which we hope reduce in future.
In hindsight having more than 90% Indians on an Aadhar platform (JAM model : Jan Dhan+Aadhar+Mobile) is going to be path breaking given the digital future. I also wonder why Goverment cannot simply open a Bank Account with the 12 digit Aadhar number as proposed.
Lastly, the author makes a case of why privacy and security will be key in the future as has been the case in many Western countries.
I wish best of luck to the Aadhar programme.
Provides lots of insight of how Govtt works and how there are some great beaurocrat in the system who immensely helped in making Aadhar a success story.
The State Election Commissions are independent of the ECI and not subordinate to it.