{"id":10834,"date":"2023-05-14T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:27:25","slug":"unique-identification-authority-of-india-uidai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/unique-identification-authority-of-india-uidai\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>statutory authority<\/strong> <strong>established under<\/strong> the provisions of the <strong>Aadhaar Act 2016<\/strong> by the Govt. of India <strong>under the Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vision<\/strong>: To <strong>empower residents of India with a unique identity<\/strong> and a digital platform to authenticate anytime, anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>It is created <strong>to issue Unique Identification Numbers (UID<\/strong>), which is also known <strong>as \u2018Aadhaar number\u2019 to all the residents of India.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Under the Aadhaar Act 2016, UIDAI is <strong>responsible for Aadhaar enrolment<\/strong> and <strong>authentication,<\/strong> including <strong>operation and management of all stages of the Aadhaar life cycle<\/strong> and <strong>the system for issuing Aadhaar numbers to individuals<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition<\/strong>: UIDAI consists of a <strong>Chairperson, two part-time Members<\/strong> and the <strong>Chief Executive Officer (CEO)<\/strong>, who is also the Member-Secretary of the Authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Aadhar?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>12-digit individual identification<\/strong> <strong>number<\/strong> <strong>issued by the UIDAI to the residents of India<\/strong> after a certain verification process.<\/li>\n<li>To get an Aadhaar number, <strong>individuals have to provide minimal demographic and biometric information<\/strong>, which include name, date of birth or age, gender, address, mobile number, and e-mail ID (optional), fingerprints, iris scans, and a facial photo.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>serves as proof of identity and proof of address<\/strong> for residents of India.<\/li>\n<li>The Aadhaar number <strong>is unique for each individual<\/strong> and will <strong>remain valid for a lifetime<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>help the residents to avail of various services <\/strong>provided by banking, mobile phone connections and other Govt and Non-Govt services in due course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Digital India initiative?<\/h3>\n<p>Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that the Government&#8217;s services are made available to citizens electronically through improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UIDAI is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar Act 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}