My proposal is that we should create 3 ID systems : one run by District govt, another run by the State Govt and third one run by the Central Govt. A citizen should be required to register himself to all these 3 ID-systems. And he should be required to get one card from each of these three. Why three ID systems? Isn’t one ID system sufficient?
Yes, as such, one ID system from Central Government would suffice. But what if the Central Government officers take years and decades to create an ID system? Or what oif they dont create and ID-system at all? And what if the their system is horribly incomplete (incomplete means a large number of citizens are NOT registered), too many duplicates (i.e. many citizens have have two entries) or there are too many records with serious errors. And what if the officers of Central Govt are too slow in adding features like DNA print etc which can improve accuracy, and features like bar code, magnetic strip etc which can fasten the processing?
In such cases, the only way out is that the States/Districts should be allowed to have their own ID system with details and features they want. If districts are allowed, some districts will do a superlative job in creating ID systems and ID cards, and these districts can become role-model for other districts as well as other States and the Center. The multiple ID system cannot hurt the nation in any way. It will, in worst case, triplicate the costs, but will drastically improve the quality of ID system as well ID cards. And it can reduce the cost, as district level ID system will create CHEAPER ways and means to create ID system as well as cards, and finding applications of ID systems/cards.
Proposed administrative procedures #ID.01 : National level ID system
Following are the procedures I propose to create a national level ID system
The PM will appoint Home Minister(as today).
The Home Minister will also appoint a Registrar for every district or will ask an exist Registrar to take the tasks to be done under this procedure.
The Home Minister will appoint a System Incharge for National ID system.
The citizens can replace the System Incharge using
The Incharge (of ID system), after obtaining permission from the Parliament, using LM.03 or otherwise, can collect a property tax or income tax to run the National ID System.
The System Incharge will open at least one office in one Tahsil, and in every town bigger than 100,000 of population. He may hire staff members by open competitive exams.
The citizens can expel the staff members using a Jury Trial.
The System Incharge's staff will create one entry for each citizen, and note details like : name, photograph, birth date on birth certificate, birth date on school leaving certificate (if different from birth on birth certificate), address, previous addresses, plot number of his addresses as given by local municipalities, finger print, blood groups, DNA-prints (at later stage) etc.
The System Incharge's will issue an ID card. The ID card will have a picture, finger print, name, serial number, DoB, details blood profile, details DNA-profile and so forth.
To obtain, blood/DNA profiles, the System Incharge will prepare a list of over 100 laboratories (selected after a tender) in the district which do the blood details. For each citizen, the clerk will randomly select 3 labs and the citizen will have to get blood/DNA profiles from these labs. The labs will send the details to clerks directly, and electronically.
A district level senior officer will personally investigate the cases where results of different labs mismatch and disqualify the labs whose over 1% results are inaccurate.
The System Incharge's staff will take photograph and finger-prints, and scan them in computer.
In the initial phase, which may last for say about 1 year, every person resident in India will get registered. (This does NOT mean that everyone is assumed as citizen, as he may be an illegal immigrant). After initial phase, the junior officer will register ONLY the infants, and if a person who is NOT an infant is unregistered, the Jurors can decide a fine on his parents for failing to register their kid within 3 months after he was born.
Cost
The cost of system will depend on how detailed the blood profile and DNA-profiles are taken. More the blood/DNA details, higher will be the cost, and better will be the system's ability to track/verify a person.
I have drafted the text for "National ID System Act", which if passed by Parliament of India will enable citizens to get equitable royalty over bandwidth. To see the draft, please click here.
Now citizens can ask MPs to pass this Act. But IMO, it will be wiser for citizens to first enact procedure LM.03, and then use LM.03 to pass this ID.01 draft WITHOUT any help from MPs. To know about procedure LM.03, please click here.
If you have any other question, please mail it to MehtaRahulC@yahoo.com. Thousand thanks in advance.
