India UID and Budget 2012-13

Last week we posted on the status of UID in India's last budget (Economic Survey 2011-12) and looked forward to seeing how the project would fare in the new budget.

Budget 2012 reinforces UIDAI (Economic Times)

"We have made it quite clear that Aadhaar will form the underlying platform for government services," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told ET. Adds Ajai Chowdhary, chairman of HCL Infosystems, a UIDAI vendor: "Aadhaar will become important also for private companies who want to authenticate their employees and customers."

Well, it's difficult to be more clear than that.

The budget website offers more specifics.
Aadhaar (UID) makes a couple of different appearances in the 2012-13 Budget Overview [pdf]...

Governance: Enrolment of 20 crore persons completed under UID mission. Adequate funds to be allocated to complete enrolment of another 40 crore persons.

Subsidies: Endeavour to scale up and roll out Aadhaar enabled payments for various government schemes in atleast 50 districts within next 6 months. h/t @m2sys