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Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters
Village women stand in a queue to get themselves enrolled for the Unique Identification (UID) database system at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan on February 22. In a more ambitious version of programmes that have slashed poverty in Brazil and Mexico, the Indian government has begun to use the UID database, known as Aadhaar, to make direct cash transfers to the poor, in an attempt to cut out frauds who siphon billions of dollars from welfare schemes.
Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters
A villager goes through the process of eye scanning for Unique Identification (UID) database system at an enrolment centre.
Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters
A villager goes through the process of a fingerprint scanner for the Unique Identification (UID) database system.
Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters
A general view of an enrolment centre for the Unique Identification (UID) database system is pictured at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan.
Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters
Ghewar Ram (R), 55, and his wife Champa Devi, 54, display their Unique Identification (UID) cards outside their hut in Rajasthan.
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Amazing the Indian govt does not have money to help their poor or fund a real birth control program they don't have money for an effective police force to protect women but they have money for this kind of intrusive high tech technology. Gotta love the global agenda
Given the severe over population problem and the burgeoning Muslim hostility problem I suppose the govt thought this the easiest solution to keep track of the herd. Kind of like tagging cows before they go to slaughter.
I don't buy the transfer money to the poor BS.