Headed by Nandan Nilekani, the Unique Identity(UID) project is one of the most ambitious projects of the UPA government. The UID project is a step towards assigning a unique numberto each individual in the country that would remain a permanent identifier right from birth to death of the individual. The UID would dispose the need for a person to produce multiple documentary proofs of his family for availing of any government service or private services like opening of a bank account. This would end needless harrassment that people face for availing government services like issuance of passports, driving licenses and electoral identity cards. Backed by intensive use of technology, it would greatly facilitate easy verification of a person's identity and enable a single communication to trigger address changes in all relevant agencies records. It would also serve as the basis for many e-Governance services incorporating online verification of a persons's identity. The project is of course the complex and high-risk one. The largest database (in the United States) of this kind is of 120 million people. We are talking about 1.2 billion people. The broad idea is to get all the births, deaths, marriages, passport data, ration card data into one database. The national ID card project is expected to provide an impetus to the domestic demand for information technology products and solutions, and will help companies such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro gain more business at a time when their top export markets of US and Europe are under recession.