Pankaj Kumar Appointed as the new CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

He Replaced Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Who holds the Additional Charge of UIDAI along with Post of Revenue Secretary and Chairman of GSTN.
The UIDAI is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016 by the government under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, with the mandate to issue Unique Identification numbers (UID), or Aadhaar, to all residents of India to eliminate duplicate and fake id entities.