UID and Public Health: Specious Claims

Published By: Newsclick on eSS | Published Date: February, 23 , 2011

Among the many reasons cited for India to proceed ahead with the Unique Identification (UID) project -that it will facilitate delivery of basic services, that it will plug leakages in public expenditure and that it will speed up achievement of targets in social sector schemes - the most specious is perhaps the claim that it will help India reach her public health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). http://newsclick.in/india/uid-and-public-health-specious-claims

Author(s): Mohan Rao | Posted on: Feb 23, 2011 | Views(2085) | Download (824)


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