Accenture to provide biometric solution to UIDAI's Aadhaar

MUMBAI: IT major Accenture has bagged a contract from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to provide multimodal biometric identification solutions to the latter's Aadhaar program.

Aadhaar is aimed at providing a unique number to each Indian resident thus enabling an easier, more efficient and secure access to Government and commercial services.

The contract will run up to two-years or until 200- million enrollments (whichever comes first), Accenture said in a statement here today.

"Aadhaar will not only be designed to enable the Government to deliver important social welfare programs like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREGA) to rural India, but also provide easier access for residents to services and resources such as health, education and welfare programs," Accenture's Management Consulting, Managing Director, Krishna Giri, said.

Accenture will build a new system to help manage identity-related de-duplication and verification requests from both public and private organisations (which deliver services ranging from social welfare programs to banking and insurance).

It will also assist UIDAI in performance benchmarking and management of data quality for continuous improvement of the biometric solution besides operate and maintain the system.

The program is being developed using leading-edge technology that will be deployed in an innovative manner designed to reach the most remote residents of India.