The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, has pulled up the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for “deficient data management”.
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UIDAI is the statutory authority established in 2016 to issue Aadhaar to all residents of the country. As of October 31, 2021, UIDAI had issued 131.68 crore Aadhaar numbers.
There are issues of data-matching, errors in authentication, and shortfall in archiving, the CAG has said in its audit report on the functioning of the UIDAI.
The CAG has said the data of Aadhaar card holders have not been matched with their Aadhaar number even after 10 years in some cases.
It has also criticised the absence of a system to analyse the factors leading to authentication errors.
even though UIDAI was maintaining one of the largest biometric databases in the world, it did not have a data archiving policy, which is considered “a vital storage management best practice.
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