Question: Who has been appointed part-time Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)?
(a) J. Gopalakrishnan
(b) J. Satyanarayana
(c) Rajesh Jain
(d) Dr. Anand Deshpande
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 8 September 2016 J Satyanarayana has been appointed part-time Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
- Rajesh Jain and Dr. Anand Deshpande has been appointed as part-time members of UIDAI.
- Satyanarayana has close to four decades of experience in varied areas of governance and served as the Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology from 2012 to 2014 before superannuation.
- He has been instrumental in training the political leaders & policy makers on the concepts and principles of e-Governance.
- Rajesh Jain, Founder and Managing Director of netCORE Solutions is one of India’s most established entrepreneurs in the IT space.
- Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems, is a B. Tech. (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the IIT, Kharagpur, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Reference:
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