Delhi firm in Dutch tie-up for e-governance business
By IANSTuesday, July 21, 2009
NEW DELHI - City-based e-governance firm MGRM has tied up with Bell ID, an identity card solutions provider headquartered in the Netherlands, to tap emerging opportunities in e-governance and identity management verticals in India.
The joint venture will become operational in the next quarter or as soon as necessary formalities are completed, MRGM said in a statement.
This is a 50:50 joint venture, and combines strengths of both MGRM and Bell ID, said MGRM group founder K.V.R. Murthy.
While the Rotterdam-based Bell ID is into managing identification programmes across diverse geographies, MGRM has developed and managed research-based integrated IT applications in different domains in India.
The central government has proposed a single national ID for Indian citizens to ensure the efficient delivery of public services, and help government identify illegal immigrants more easily.
It created a national ID agency - Unique Identification Authority - in February, earmarking for it an initial corpus of $20 million.
The massive exercise, which has set an ambitious goal of rolling out 100 million cards in the next three years, has evoked interest among bio-metric systems providers.
