Wednesday, June 27, 2012

NSADAQ Poster Bullish on UID

India’s new biometric identity system will help alleviate poverty (NSADAQ)
Over the past few months, we've been rather critical of the inefficacy of Indian government policy towards the economy (and rightly so). However, it would be disingenuous to claim that endless bureaucracy has impeded every initiative the government has undertaken. Rather, in one instance, it's been quite the opposite: the attempts by the Indian government to introduce a biometric identity system are a rare instance of dynamism in the behemoth Indian government.