The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the provisions of Aadhaar Act, 2016. It was established on 12th July 2016 by the Government of India under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
UIDAI was functioning as an attached office of the Planning Commission, which is NITI Aayog now, vide its Gazette Notification No.-A-43011/02/2009-Admn.I) dated 28th January 2009. The Government revised the Allocation of Business Rules to attach the UIDAI to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on 12th September 2015. UIDAI was created:
