On January 1, 2025, IAS officer Bhuvnesh Kumar took over as the CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which administers Aadhaar.
Mr. Kumar is Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and will continue to hold the same position after this appointment.
Mr Kumar replaced Amit Agarwal.
On December 25, Mr Agarwal was appointed secretary of the Department of Pharmaceuticals under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle.
As of January 1, 2025, over 1.41 billion individual residents have been cumulatively enrolled in Aadhaar, and 1.07 billion updates and corrections have been made to the enrolment.
The number of regular Aadhaar authentications for tasks such as marking attendance in government organizations and collecting rations has exceeded 127 billion.
Aadhaar has been used for electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) over 21.8 billion times.
Aadhaar was launched in India in 2009 by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
