UIDAI paid the states Rs 50 per issue of number, regardless of what the states paid. Many states issued RFPs and got enrolment done at lower costs. That raised the question of what would be done to settle the accounts. It was eventually decided that the states would set up permanent enrolment centres and information centres with the money. What set UIDAI apart and on the route to scale was the strategic departure from conventional practices, especially the outsourcing of processes. At an operational level, it limited the field of demographic data, it offered choice in when and where to enrol,
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