India's ambitious UIDAI project launched
India’s ambitious UIDAI ID scheme aims to assign a biometric ID to country’s 1.2 billion inhabitants; Morpho helped the Indian prime minister officially launch to project by issuing the first 12-digit UIAID number during the inauguration ceremony
Morpho has issued the first 12-digit number for India’s ambitious UIDAI ID scheme — known in India as the Aadhaar project — which aims to equip 1.2 billion Indians with biometric IDs.
Morpho’s technology played a key role in the issuance of the first 12-digit UIDAI number during the inauguration ceremony for the Aadhaar project by the Indian prime minister. This marks the official launch of the world’s largest biometrics-based identity project and a major leap for India’s development.
Morpho, a Safran group company, has been the biometrics technology provider for de-duplication of the very first numbers.
Among the project’s three successful bidders, Mahindra Satyam / Morpho is the only Indian company-led consortium that has already de-duplicated thousands of biometric records at the UIDAI center in Bangalore, using Morpho’s technology.
“We are very proud that our technology has been the first to de-duplicate biometrics for the issuance of the very first Aadhaar number,” commented Jean-Paul Jainsky, chairman and CEO of Morpho. “It is truly a remarkable achievement that the UIDAI authority has been able to accomplish in just a year. Morpho has been involved in the Indian government’s biometric projects since 2003 and we look forward to taking on the major technological challenges that come with this project.”
