No mechanism to check denial of benefits, UIDAI CEO tells Supreme Court

PowerPoint presentations are a common sight during boardroom meetings - college students too at times have to resort to it for their assignments. But how often have you heard about someone making a PowerPoint presentation in a court room, that too of the Supreme Court of India and in a landmark case like the Aadhaar hearing?

In a first of its kind, today, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the chief executive officer of Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI made a PowerPoint presentation to a constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Pandey's presentation highlighted an introduction to Aadhaar, the technology behind it and the privacy safeguards in place. He however made three big concessions.

First, there was no institutional mechanism to check denial of benefits despite authentication.