"Keir Starmer is to examine India's digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a massive success. Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India's digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licences."
"Starmer met Nandan Nilekani, the non-exec chair of the tech company Infosys, to discuss the speed of the rollout in India and the transformation of the benefits system, which has cut bureaucracy but also caused significant contention over the exclusion of some minorities. India's version of the scheme Aadhaar has been introduced over the past 15 years to almost all of its 1.4bn citizens."
Keir Starmer will examine India's Aadhaar digital ID system during a Mumbai visit as a potential model for a voluntary UK digital ID. He met Nandan Nilekani of Infosys to discuss rapid rollout and how Aadhaar transformed the benefits system, reducing bureaucracy but drawing controversy over exclusions affecting minorities. Starmer's team said the meeting was not a commercial negotiation and that the government intends to build a public-sector version. Starmer hopes a voluntary scheme could expand to school admissions, mortgages and driving licences and aims to restore public confidence by emphasising convenience.
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