Brief Background
- World’s largest Digital Identity programme
- Aadhaar provides presence-less foundational identity layer to India Stack
- On top of this, various layers and user-cases get built
Objectives
- Building an ID for everyone
- Building on the systems strengthening service delivery
- Promoting innovation, building ecosystem & creating new solutions
Benefits and Impact
- Provides identity to 1.42 billion residents and facilitated 138 billion e-authentications
- Saving to government exchequer: USD 49 Billion
Implementation Methodology
- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority
- Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”) provides legal backing
- UIDAI Ecosystem comprises of Enrolment & Update Ecosystem and Authentication Ecosystem
- Enrolment Ecosystem consists of Registrars and PPP based Enrolment Agencies
- UIDAI facilitates authentication through Authentication Service Agencies (ASAs) and Authentication User Agencies (AUAs) from various Government and non-Government organisations
- Realtime authentication is provided through deployment of dedicated data centres in active-active mode to ensure high availability
Aadhaar Ecosystem Architecture
- Entire technology architecture behind Aadhaar is based on principles of openness, linear scalability, strong security, and most importantly vendor neutrality.
- Aadhaar technology backbone is built using the following principles.
- Open architecture
- Design for scale
- Data Security
Modalities of implementation
- Primary Support – Support from Government leaders and administrators
- Technical – IT Readiness for management of biometric and demographic data
- Legal – Information Technology Act, Rules, and Regulations
- Financial – For continuous data and infra management and upgradation
- Other aspects – Public Private Partnership for quick rollout and for sustainability
(Technical, Financial, Operational, Legal, and other aspects) of implementation in other friendly nations)
Use-cases
- Direct Benefit Transfer and Digital Life Certificate
- Aadhaar based Electronic Signature (different than Digital Signature Certificate)
- Biometric Attendance System and Aadhaar enabled payment system
