India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a \u2018Unitary Digital Identity framework\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n UDIF is apparently similar to India’s Aadhaar card.<\/span><\/p>\n The proposed UDIF is expected to introduce a:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Personal identity verification device based on biometric data<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Digital tool that can represent the identities of individuals in cyberspace and<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Identification of individual identities that can be accurately verified in digital and physical environments by combining the two devices.<\/span><\/p>\n India has been providing substantive economic assistance to Sri Lanka totalling $ 1.4 billion since the beginning of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n This is being done to help Sri Lanka overcome its dollar crunch, and import food, medicines and fuel amid frequent shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201cIndia to help Sri Lanka launch its version of Aadhaar\u201d <\/b>published in Hindustan Times <\/b>on 9th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a \u2018Unitary Digital Identity framework\u2019. What is the Unitary Digital Identity framework (UDIF)? UDIF is apparently similar to India’s Aadhaar card. The proposed UDIF is expected to introduce a: \u2013 Personal identity verification device based on biometric data \u2013… Continue reading India to help Sri Lanka launch its version of Aadhaar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10595],"class_list":["post-167448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Unitary Digital Identity framework (UDIF)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of this development?<\/b><\/h5>\n