UIDAI to appoint consultant to identify database management co

BANGALORE: The Unique Identification Authority of India would soon appoint a consultant to help identify a company which would manage the proposed Unique Identification data centre, UIDAI Chairman Nandan M Nilekani said.

"We will shortly be appointing a consultant to help us identify a company who will manage the data centre," he said at the BangaloreIT.Biz 2009 conference here today.

According to UIDAI, the body aimed at implementing the ambitious programme aimed at giving a unique identity to each citizen, the database would be stored on a central server and enrolment of residents would be computerized.

Nilekani said the data base management would be outsourced to the company (after the consultant helps UIDAI identify it) which would operate as a depository - similar to CDSL and NSDL operating as stock depositories.

He said the biometrics committee and the data standards and verification committee, appointed by the UIDAI, would submit their reports in a couple of months.