Sri Lanka's India-backed unique ID card project likely to begin by Jan end

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The unique digital identity project, a crucial step in Sri Lanka's digitalisation programme, is being implemented with Indian grant assistance.

Some SLR 20 billion are needed to implement this project, we aim to receive 50 per cent of that under the Indian assistance programme, Digital Economy Deputy Minister Eranga Weeraratna told reporters here.

Sri Lanka's India-assisted unique ID card project will begin by the end of January, a senior official said on Tuesday, as he mitigated concerns that data from the project would be restricted to the island nation only.

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Topics: Unique ID card Biometric data Eranga Weeraratna India-assisted Digital identity Data privacy India grant assistance Security concerns National People's Power Project launch

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