UIDAI CEO makes presentation over Aadhaar technicalities before SC

New Delhi, March 22: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday made a PowerPoint presentation on Aadhaar scheme and Technicalities in the Apex court to allay concerns.

The constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had in the morning asked the petitioners opposing the Aadhaar scheme to prepare a questionnaire after the UIDAI CEO’s presentation.

This exercise is a part of the on-going hearing by the constitution bench on the number of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling Act.

The bench had on Wednesday said there are several technical aspects related to the Aadhaar scheme. These include surveillance, data security and exclusion of certain people from receiving benefits for want of either authentication or the lack of an Aadhaar number.

The apex court was earlier told that the collection of biometric details of citizens by the UIDAI from 2010 onwards till 2016, when the enabling Aadhaar law came into force, was illegal and invalid and the collected data deserved to be destroyed.

The court has extended the March 31 deadline for linking of Aadhaar to avail various services and welfare schemes run by the government until it delivers its verdict on the validity of the 12-digit biometric number and its enabling law.