A closer look to AADHAAR number.

What is AADHAAR?

AADHAAR is a 12 digits number that will act as unique identification to every residents in India.

The Indian government has guaranteed successful identification of the residents possessing an AADHAAR number across India and enabling each for various utilities like financial services, government schemes etc.

After acquiring an AADHAAR number, you will not have to carry and submit additional identification documents . Your unique AADHAAR number will now adequately fulfill this need.

Whether AADHAAR a Card or a Number?

AADHAAR is a 12 digit number and NOT a card. And, this AADHAAR number will be sent through speed post to your home address,

wherein the letter will contain details like your AADHAAR number, enrollment id, name, address, year of birth, your guardian or spouse name and your photo.

Snapshots of letter containing AADHAAR details:

Material of the letter looks like a plastic coated/laminated paper. The quality of paper does not seem that good. The dimensions of the letter is 3.5x8.5". 

AADHAAR Envelope: Front Side

AADHAAR Envelope: Back Side

Unpacking AADHAAR

 

AADHAAR Letter: Front Side

AADHAAR Letter: Back Side

Feel good every time you solve a reCAPTCHA.

If you spend much time on-line, chances are, you have been required to solve distorted letter puzzles like below when you submit information.

CAPTCHA Examples

Facebook CAPTCHA

It is an Anti-Spam program called CAPTCHA. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart. As soon as Yahoo! started using it, every other website started using and it really turns out to be extreamly effective to stoping spam.

Co-inventer Luis von Ahn says, "it is effective because only people, not computers can figure it out".

Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University

At first, he felt proud of its impact, then Luis started feeling bad because the thing was each time we type a CAPTCHA, essentially we waste 10 seconds of our time and if we multiply that by 200,000,000 we get the humanity as a whole is wasting like 500,000 hours everyday typing those annoying CAPTCHAs.

But he was also aware of another problem. Some libraries use computers and scanner to transcribe old books and news papers into digital archives. The problem is that letters often look murky. So, computers often transcribe words incorrectly. The reason the computer can not decipher many of those words is prescisly the same reason why computers can not read CAPTCHAs, is because they can not read distorted text.

But since people were already decoding distorted text, von Ahn revised CAPTCHA to use the hard to read text from old books as the puzzle. He has to make 20,000,000 words a day a digitize with the new program he calls reCAPTCHA.

reCAPTCHA

People are usually very happy about this as they say that well at least my time is not wasted any more. So feel good next time you have to solve those words problems. You might be helping to preserve a part of history.

How to add reCAPTCHA gadget to your blogger website.

If you try to add a reCAPTCHA gadget to your blogger website following "Design->Page Elements->Add a Gadget" link on your blog, you will find that there is no stand alone gadget for reCAPTCHA.

However, by editing some simple HTML/JavaScript code in HTML/JavaScript gadget, you can have one.

Just follow these simple steps:

Step #1: Add an HTML/JavaScript gadget: Go to "Design->Page Elements->Add a Gadget", and select HTML/JavaScript gadget under Basic gadget category.

Add an HTML/JavaScript Gadget

Step #2: Paste the following HTML code snippet into content text box and click on SAVE button.

<table>

<td width="544" align="left" valign="top" style="padding-top: 48px"><div class="normal" style="padding-top: 0px">

<h1>Help Digitizing Books One Word at a Time</h1>

<script type="text/javascript">

      document.write("<div style='padding-top: 10px;'>\n");

      document.write("<iframe src='http://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/' "

                     + "allowtransparency='true' height='220' width='500' style='border:0px;' "

                     + "scrolling='no'></iframe>\n");

      document.write("</div>\n");

    </script>

</div></td>

</table>

Paste HTML code and Save

Step #3: Save the template and you're done!

Now, your reCAPTCHA gadget is ready for others to help digitizing old books and news papers.

Interesting Information about Government Inter College (GIC), Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh.

GIC Bijnor - Main Gate

Inside Main Gate

Government Inter College, Bijnor (Hindi: राजकीय इण्टर कॉलेज, बिजनौर) or more popularly know as GIC Bijnor, was established by British as "Bijnor District School" in 1872. Well, according to the government records, It was functioning as a Primary School since 1872. However, the students' records are present in the college since 1881.

Main Building

Inside Main Gate

That time, Uttar Pradesh was known as North-Western Province & Avadh, and there was no Education Department. GIC used to come under the Department of Public Instructions.


The very first student who was enrolled into the college, was Jyoti Prasad Kayasth son of Shri Bhagirath Prasad Kayasth. He was a resident of Bijnor.

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