UIDAI Official Website Guide

What is UIDAI? What is its full form?

UIDAI refers to Unique Identification Authority of India. It is established under the provisions of Aadhaar Act 2016 [ i.e. Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016]. UIDAI is a statutory body established by the Government of India vide its notification no 13012/ 64/ 2016 dt 12 July 2016 under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It is entrusted with the objective to issue Unique Identification number (UID) to citizens of India named as Aadhar. The purpose behind introducing Aadhar was to

• Introduce a system wherein duplicate and fake identities could be eliminated
• Implement a cost-effective and efficient verification and authentication mechanism.

Under Aadhaar Act 2016 UIDAI undertakes

• Enrollment and Authentication
• Ensure Security
• Perform authentication
• Operation and Management
• Developing policies, procedure, and system for aadhaar enrollment

The authority has issued more than 120 Crore (approx) Aadhaar numbers to Indian residents till date and the counts are increasing every day. But the inception of UIDAI is not new. It was in existence way beyond Aadhaar Act 2016and The journey of UIDAI is quite interesting

• From the Year 2009-2015
  UIDAI was working as an attachment officer under the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), formerly known as planning Commission of India from 28th Jan 2009.
• From the Year 2015-2016
  Later on, from 25 Sep 2015 UIDAI was made an attaching officer to Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), formerly known as Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

What are the Vision and Mission of UIDAI?

UIDAI was established under Aadhaar Act 2016 with the vision to

• Provide Unique Identity to the citizens of India and
• Ensure digital authentication 24*7 from around the world.

The Authority's mission includes

• Issuing Aadhaar Number
• Compliance of Aadhaar Act
• Make Rules and Regulations
• Provide for Good Governance
• Develop a sustainable organization
• Undertake Security and Confidentiality of information
• Ensure Technologically sound and reliable infrastructure

What are UIDAI’s core values?

The Unique Identification Authority of India has a whole set of core values through which its complete functioning is driven. The core values of UIDAI can be briefly pointed down as under

• Maintain integrity
• Driven by innovation
• Believe in transparency
• To facilitate good Governance
• Excellence in services it provides
• Committed to building an inclusive nation
• Value to partners and collaborative approach
• Continuous learning and quality improvements

What is the organization structure of UIDAI?

For making its vivid presence throughout the country UIDAI has a delegated organizational structure. It has

• One Head Quarters at New Delhi
• Eight Regional Offices and
• Two Data Centers

The Data Centers are located in the two key locations of the country namely,

• Hebbal, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Manesar, Gurugam, Haryana

Also, the Head Quarters of UIDAI are located in the center of India i.e. at New Delhi having the postal address as Unique Identification Authority Of India Government Of India (GOI) Bangla Sahib Road, Behind Kali Mandir, Gole Market, NEW DELHI -110001 The eight (8) Regional Offices of UIDAI are located at the following places and they cover in their ambit multiple states or union territories

What are the services provided by UIDAI?

The various services provided by UIDAI include

• Aadhaar Enrollment
• Generation fo Aadhaar
• Aadhaar Updation
• E Aadhaar
• E KYC services
• Services of Authentication
• Aadhaar Status Notification
• Aadhaar Letter Delivery
• Locating enrollment Center
• Retrieve lost UID
• Aadhaar Number Verification
• Bank account linking status
• Check your credentials in Aadhar etc