Can Technology Solve India's Biggest Problem?

India's government is giving a unique ID to each of its 1.2 billion citizens, creating the world's largest biometric data set. But some are questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to use technology to solve the country's most critical problems: poverty and corruption. Photo: Karan Deep Singh/The Wall Street Journal

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[vikassom]

The problem is we people do not readily accept changes. Instead of accepting changes we just "whack whack" about the problem and become a part of it which makes it a bigger problem.

[exevil]

that's what happens when you get your tech job done by tcs instead of recruiting your own engineers just to save few bucks

[imranshaik]

in India our problems are so deep that even a solution to solve one problem would create more problems
Govt needed finger prints of people, but they didnt realized we also have network issues.
Our problems are actually in a circle. To solve one problem we need to solve other problems first and we keep on circling around haha

[punjabigundaa]

The point is that the Indian gov't is trying to help it's poor people by technology. It's hard to get 1.3 billion people. You have quoted one street out of 1.3 billion. It shows that the system is working.

[rishisharma]

Does this video answer the question it asks? No

[akonvicted]

It will take some time. People really need to realize that, this is a sudden change that many people were not ready for it. But what else do you expect to teach this large number of people, you've to force them to get adapt to it. This has to be done.

[tirthrajgandhakwala]

Me along with my team of 2 more people can solve this in systemic way. Using biometric data only. No internet. No hassle. Probably will take 20 second for each customer max.

[ThomasShelby-cs]

As alwasy western media shows india in alwasy bad light
They forget that poverty, unemployment, homelessness is rising in USA, UK

[gungeetkaur]

why can't we use retinal scans instead of thumb prints /

[riseup]

Problem with india is that it implements great ideas but don’t really execute it really well, and don’t follow back and no bug fixes. All this needs to handled by Private accountable organizations which will work efficiently because they need to make profit.

[soulslife]

I really feel sympathy for voiceless poor indian peoples .They deserve better then these RSS frontmans.

[thisiskartik]

I'm not sure why wallstree made this video? What are you trying to point out ? Is there a new technology that you guys have will solve India's problem ?

[AnkitKumar-brnk]

I think Iris authentication is best solution for it

[mohitbhati]

A 2-3 min. Journalist can not decide any policy.
Ground reality is very different
In India before The biometric system
Corruption is huge problem because Ration Holder or Depo Holder is backed(Smuggling) The ration that's why which can't be access to the beneficerris. It is much better than a older manual system
Also mentioning the fingerprint issue which is not truly correct because if in a family having 3-4 member is one's fingerprint can't access so you can try others member so it's not a genuine



Last thing The Ration holder provide more than the two things
Like Vegetables oil, Pulses, bazra, etc..
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[radhakrishna]

Find ways to solve....
Aadhaar should work..
Even without internet...
If I am right.. In China
WeChat can work even without net connection...

[onlinepathsala]

Ye time taken ho ga but isse distributors घोटाला nahi kare ge

[ME-tcfk]

In Long term it will be a great success people know this

[JRPadhan]

Home delivery karenge sarkar to better hoga

[mohammadiqbal]

tutto Gorno piangere troppo male meno piangere vene Como politica game noi helpless grande isbaliato far right fragile Como hitlar federal noi poveri meligo poveri loro ricco