Missing UIDAI's working paper on public health, finds mention in its critique

[Gopal Krishna]

Here is the url of UIDAI's working paper on public health which made wild claims. Now it seems to have vanished from UIDAI's site uidai.gov.in/UID_PDF/Working_Papers/UIDandPublicHealth.pdf

This paper has been critiqued in the article titled "False Promises" https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30177791.ece & "UID and Public Health: Specious Claims" https://www.newsclick.in/uid-and-public-health-specious-claims

UIDAI working paper on public health puts it,  “The demand pull for this needs to be created de novo or fostered on existing platforms by the respective ministries. Helping various ministries visualise key applications that leverage existing government entitlement schemes such as the NREGA and PDS will get their buy-in into the project .... and will also build excitement and material support from the ministries for the UID project even as it gets off the ground.”

Given the significant potential for misuse of data, human rights violations and breach of confidentiality of health information, one hopes that the Ministry of Health will restrain its “excitement” and undertake a rigorous analysis of the costs and risks of the scheme before providing “material support” to the UID project.