UIDAI - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: J Satyaranayana

Explanation:
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

ANSWER: ABP Pandey

Explanation:
Senior IAS officer A B P Pandey was on 21st July appointed as the chief executive officer of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), mandated to issue Aadhaar numbers.

• He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
• He is the first CEO of UIDAI formed in January 2009.
• He has been involved with UIDAI since September 2010

ANSWER: Aadhaar (Targeted delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act 2016

Explanation:
The Union Government has notified the UIDAI (Terms and Conditions of Service of Chairperson and Member) Rules to provide legal shape to Unique Identification Authority of India.

• The rules have been framed as per provisions of Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other subsidies, benefits and services) Act 2016 for the appointment of chairperson and members.
• The UIDAI chairman will be selected on the basis of recommendation of a committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
• UIDAI was set by by GoI in January 2009 under the control of the Planning Commission.