Last updated on July 11th, 2023 at 04:57 pm
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) deliberated upon and worked on five key areas to play an important role in providing continuous support to residents in their daily lives, further enhancing data security, and furthering the cause of good governance.
The five core areas are – providing a legal identity for all, expanding the usage of Aadhaar, security, and privacy, continuous technology upgradation, and collaborating with global economies to support their aspiration to achieve SDG 16.9.
Kevadia (Gujarat) held a daylong brainstorming session to deliberate these five focus areas. Dr. Saurabh Garg, the CEO, of UIDAI, said, “The focus has and will always be on how to support residents in creating life easier and improving their experience in availing services.”
The Authority is constantly exploring and adopting ways to expand the use of Aadhaar to make life easier and to do business more efficiently. IIts sandbox environment will allow startups, professionals, and companies to explore and test innovation applications to enhance the usage of Aadhaar. UIDAI will strive to expand the use of Aadhaar in multiple ways by expanding e-KYC adoption and popularizing offline verification for better service delivery to residents.
Aadhaar has become a tool for good governance, of empowerment, and service delivery. Indicative of how it is touching residents’ lives, UIDAI has issued over 1.35 billion Aadhaars and has carried out more than 88 billion authentication transactions since the first Aadhaar number was generated in 2010. Since 2010, UIDAI has executed over 710 million Aadhaar updations following requests from residents.
UIDAI will continuously upgrade its technology to further enhance data security and privacy, provide seamless service delivery, and proactively address new-age cyber security risks.
UIDAI also urged residents who got their Aadhaar issued 10 years ago and have never updated after that in these years to get their documents updated. The residents can update their Aadhar by uploading the supportive documents (the proof of identity and the proof of address) either online through the myAadhaar portal or offline by visiting the nearest Aadhaar center.
