The move is to ensure compliance with various fraud detection rules in addition to the need for a periodic analysis of the database to detect fraudulent patterns Moulishree Srivastava
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A file photo of UID iris scan camp at Kalyanpuri in New Delhi. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
New Delhi: The Indian government has put in place a dedicated fraud investigation and analytics team to monitor the database of Aadhaar, the unique identity project. This is to ensure compliance with various fraud detection rules in addition to the need for a periodic analysis of the database of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to detect any fraudulent patterns, said Rao Inderjit Singh, minister of state for planning, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. India launched the Aadhaar scheme in 2009 to give every one of its residents a unique identity number. According to the government data, by 2014 end, more than 700 million people were issued Aadhaar numbers. The data collected during enrolment process is immediately encrypted and transmitted to the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) of UIDAI for processing. The methodology for generation of the unique identity number involves using certain basic demographic (name, age, gender and address) and biometric information (10 finger prints, two iris images) with a photograph to uniquely identify a resident after a process of biometric de-duplication that ensures uniqueness of a record to a high degree of accuracy, exceeding 99%. After a series of validation and quality checks, the residents’ biometrics are matched against the existing database of UIDAI to determine if the resident has previously enrolled.