PROOF OF CONCEPT BIDS INVITED FOR BIOMETRIC, FINGERPRINT DEVICES
New Delhi
The Hindu Business Line
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has invited bids for supply, installation and commissioning of biometric and fingerprint devices.
However, the bids are meant for proof of concept and not the full project, sources said. The UIDAI has fixed January 17 as the last date for submission of technical and commercial bids. “This is aimed at identifying standards and testing out various devices for proof of concept,” sources added.
The UID project aims to handout a unique identification number to every Indian resident.
When contacted, the UIDAI Chairman, Nandan Nilekani, declined to comment on the bids. Asked about the status of the ongoing dialogue with various States, he said that talks with 18 States has already been concluded and that remaining would be covered by March. Over the last few months, the authority has been discussing the UID project with various State governments and is also giving presentations on the approach and strategy in this regard.
It may be recalled that the UIDAI recently invited proposals from consulting firms for services pertaining to the setting up of Central ID Data Repository (CIDR) and selection of managed service provider. The RFP for consultants is being seen as the first step towards the creation of back-end IT infrastructure for the project.
STATE SET FOR E-MOTIONS IN ASSEMBLY
Avinash Kalla, Jaipur
The Times of India
The Rajasthan assembly is all set to have lots of e-motions. In a first in the country, members of the House can raise questions online and also get their answers online. This is likely to be in place by the end of this year.
For the past six months, programmers and systems analysts of the National Informatics Center (NIC) have been busy developing a system for the assembly, which will allow members and various government departments to be linked with the assembly on the World Wide Web.
In the first phase, an intranet will be developed for the assembly allowing online interface between the assembly and various departments of the state government. In the second phase, the members will be connected and they can post their questions online.
A senior official working on the project, said, “On the intranet all departments will be made available and the assembly will send them the various questions online pertaining to their department, to which they will send a reply which will be digitally signed to ensure the validity of the reply.”
At present neither Parliament nor any state assembly has this kind of facility. “In the LS, questions can be submitted over the email but no such integrated system is in place. Once put to practice this will be one of its kind mechanism,” an NIC official said.
TO NAIL TAX EVADERS, GOVT OFFERS MCD GEOGRAPHIC SURVEY DETAILS
New Delhi
The Indian Express
The biggest municipality in South and Southeast Asia, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), also is one of the poorest.
The reason: property tax collected this year comes from merely 20 percent of existing property owners. Now, the civic body is planning to force tax evaders to pay up.
For this, the Delhi government has sent a proposal to the MCD to use Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure to increase its collection. The geo-spatial survey of Delhi reveals that though tax is collected only from eight lakh properties, more than 40 lakh properties exist in the city.
The proposal sent by the government’s IT department entails that all manual property tax data available with the MCD be integrated with the data generated from GIS (Geographic Information System) survey done by Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure.
The idea is to centrally manage all property records.
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