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Creation of health ID under NDHM not mandatory for citizens, says Ashwini Choubey
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Last Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 09:35 PM IST
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The budget allocated for health IDs for the year 2020-21 is Rs 1.06 crore. The expenditure on health IDs till December 31 is Rs 52.02 lakh. There is no provision for state and UT wise budget and expenditure, the minister said.
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NEW DELHI: Creation of a health ID under the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) is not mandatory for citizens, Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Choubey, informed Parliament on Friday. On August 15, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the NDHM, following which NDHM pilot mode was launched in the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Ladakh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.
No violation of data privacy of citizens under National Digital Health Mission, Rajya Sabha told
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Published: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 15:51 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 2: There is no violation of data privacy of citizens under the National Digital Health Mission as it enables appropriate use of health data with the consent of an individual, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
The ambitious National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) programme was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech last year. According to a draft proposal, everyone enrolled for the mission will get a Health ID free of cost and will have complete control over his or her data.
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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare sidestepped a question in the Rajya Sabha, asking if the government would store Indian citizens’ data as part of the the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) with an Indian company, or a foreign one. It only replied that “[t]he selection of vendors for NDHM is compliant with various applicable rules and policies of Government of India”.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh, who asked the question, also wanted to know whether there was any violation of citizens’ privacy if the data was stored with an “external company”. The issue of how the health data of Indian citizens’ is stored assumed significance in recent weeks. The CoWIN ecosystem, the backbone of the Indian government’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS), an arrangement that isn’t kosher even for health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, according to a report by The Ken. Bhushan is said to have favoured the u