J Satyanarayana appointed UIDAI's Chairperson
Q. Who has been appointed as the CEO of UIDAI w.e.f 7th September 2016?- Published on 08 Sep 16a. J Satyaranayana
b. J Satyabhama
c. J Satya Kumar
d. None of the above
ANSWER: J Satyaranayana
Government has chosen retired IAS officer and former DeITY secretary J. Satyanarayana as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India.
- He succeeds former Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani
- Nilekani was the first UIDAI chairman and he stepped down from the post in 2014
- Due to the recently passed Aadhaar Act, government appointed a part time chairperson of the UIDAI
- Present CEO of UIDAI is serving IAS officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey
- GoI appointed two private persons as part time members namely Rajesh Jain, founder and MD of netCORE solutions and Anand Deshpande, founder and CEO of Persistent Systems
- Government had also set up a screening committee for filing the top posts at the UIDAI and the ACC headed by the PM makes appointments
- Delta ID’s iris software makes Aadhaar authentication more secure
- Satyanarayana was DeITY secretary from 2012 to 2014; this department has been closely associated with the Aadhaar project
- He contributed to the e-governance sector and was a founder of the e-seva programme for citizen services
- He also took part in the Passport Seva project of the MEA and various e-governance projects in Karnataka.
- He also served as special chief secretary in AP
- Rajesh Jain, the netCORE solutions founder is an IITan with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University
- He has been convenor of the Friends of BJP, a network of professionals on social media who worked with BJP during the 2014 campaign
- Anand Deshpande, CMD of Persistent Systems is a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a MS in Computer Science from Indiana University
- Both Jain and Deshpande will work as part time members of UIDAI
