UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey succeeds Hasmukh Adhia as revenue secretary

Pandey, a 1984-batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre with over 34 years of experience in state and Central governments, was welcomed to his new office by the outgoing finance and revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia.

Pandey would continue to head UIDAI as its CEO, where he had a remarkable stint of over eight years playing a key role in establishing and steering Aadhaar across the country and drafting the historic Aadhaar legislation.

He would also hold his position as the chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the IT arm of the new indirect tax system.

Prior to joining UIDAI in 2010, he played an important role in reforming power distribution system as managing director of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company where he brought down transmission and distribution losses remarkably and helped the state in tiding over massive power shortage, the government said in a statement.

An Electrical Engineering graduate from IIT-Kanpur, he joined the University of Minnesota in 1998 to obtain his MS and PhD in Computer Science and was later awarded Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals by the university.