In what could be the world's largest biometric identification project, India has selected three companies, Accenture [ACN], L-1 Identity Solutions [ID], and Mahindra Satyam, to compete during the next two years to demonstrate how well each can enroll the country's citizens in an identity management project aimed at reducing fraud and abuse in a slew of benefit programs. The hotly contested Aadhaar program--there were at least nine finalists at one time--runs up to two years or until the three Biometric…
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