The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) came together with the various stakeholders of the UID ecosystem to discuss the implementation of the UID in India. UIDAI invited a farmer from Azamgarh, U.P., Mr. Dhaneshwar, to be the Chief Guest of the seminar and unveil the brand name – AADHAAR – and its logo.
AADHAAR will be the foundation on which public and private agencies can build identity-based services to benefit residents. As Ram Sewak Sharma, the Director General and Mission Director, UIDAI, noted, “The UID infrastructure will be a foundation over which multiple applications in finance, insurance, health, labour, welfare services and others can be built, which can be used to deliver services effectively to the poor.”
The entire ecosystem, which included potential partners within the UID ecosystem – registrars, enrolment agencies, IT vendors, as well as public and private agencies who may use the AADHAAR for identification and authentication, came together to listen attentively to his problems and arrive at a solution. During the seminar, various issues and opportunities surrounding the AADHAAR rollout, as well as the scale of operations and timelines involved, were discussed.
