UIDAI and Mobile

I tried to google this topic and found very little information on the prospects of future of UIDAI(Unique Identification Authority of India) with mobile technology as one of it's propagators. So I thought of bringing my thoughts to notice and pen down what all can be done with the amalgamation of these business jargons in India in future. As per the latest numbers 2 million numbers have already been provided and 1 million per day is the target w.e.f 1st oct. Doing simple maths it will take another 3.5 years to cover present population of 1.25 billion which by the end of this time would cover every inch of land available on earth.  Highly unrealistic, a herculean task for Mr. Nilekani and co, but I won't go into criticizing columnist mode but instead will focus on my key topic here.

Needless to say, this project if succeeds will bring about a reform in the processes- ranging from reducing paper work, fast services for individual verification, easy access to bank accounts, reduction in corruption, ease of polling and linkages with social welfare schemes such as NREGA esp for rural areas. Though getting a UID number is not a mandate but certainly it will help individuals ranging from people living in remote areas to HNI's. You can do a bank transactions or open a completely new account using your mobile verifying your thumb impressions or iris verification. Currently National Payments Corporation of India(NPCI) is working with UIDAI to provide hassle free transactions on mobile without even showing up to the bank. A mobile app can be built which takes thumb impression of a person, authenticate the details with entries at the backend and allow user to create a new account with the bank of his or her choice ! 

Thumb impression on Mobile

Linking mobile numbers to UIDAI will allow wallet-less wandering anywhere around the country. All your details such as Licence, PAN, VoterID, bank accounts, credit cards can be accessed directly from your mobile with the simple verification of UIDAI. Ofcourse, that goes without saying that one needs to develop a highly robust system and network around mobile, which can be leveraged by customers to access their personal information and consume it in a right manner.  More so, the telecom operators along with government should channelize their energies here rather than spending time, money and efforts on passing allegations to each other and should gear up and develop a strong network that can sustain the traffic of this order. Then be it e-ticket verification for train or Air or Roll number verification in an exam centre, all will benefit from the fusion of these two: UIDAI and mobile.