Question: Who is current president of Sri Lanka ?
a) Gotabaya Rajapaksa
b) Mahinda Rajapaksa
c) Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
d) None of these
Ans : a
Related Facts :
- India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity framework’, apparently modelled on the Aadhaar card.
- he government of Sri Lanka has decided to speed up the implementation of a Unitary Digital Identity framework in the country.
- The personal identity verification program is a digital tool that can represent the identities of individuals in cyberspace, and the identification of individual identities
- The government of India had previously agreed to provide a grant to implement the Unitary Digital Identity framework, after bilateral talks between the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019.
- The Unitary Digital Identity sounds similar to the government of India’s Aadhaar biometric-based digital identity verification system
- About Aadhaar card :
- Aadhaar is a 12 digit individual identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Government of India.
- The number serves as a proof of identity and address, anywhere in India.
- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”) on 12 July 2016 by the Government of India,
- UIDAI was functioning as an attached office of the then Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog) vide its Gazette Notification No.-A-43011/02/2009-Admn.I) dated 28th January 2009.
- The first UID number was issued on 29 September 2010 to a resident of Nandurbar, Maharashtra.
- On 12 September 2015, the Government revised the Allocation of Business Rules to attach the UIDAI to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) of the then Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
By Pawan Mishra
Links :
https://uidai.gov.in/about-uidai/unique-identification-authority-of-india/about.html
https://newsonair.com/2022/02/10/india-to-provide-grant-to-sri-lanka-to-implement-unitary-digital-identity-framework-modelled-on-aadhaar-card/