Transcript of the interview:
"On the UID Aadhaar front, we have already enrolled over 300 million people it's now at about 310 million and we analyzed that it should be at about 270 million. So that is chugging along and we do about a million a day. And we hope to do about 400 million by sometime in the middle of 2013 calendar and 600 million by sometime in 2014. So that's the enrolment side. But the exciting thing now is the applications have started. The first major application is direct benefit transfer, where money can be credited to a bank account using an Aadhar number. So this has been launched by the government in about 43 districts across a wide variety of schemes. So that will show us how we can use this technology to directly put money into anybody's bank account electronically and seamlessly. So I think all this will showing the value of the ID not just as an identity thing, but also as an app platform..."
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