UIDAI looking for agency to gauge public sentiment on Aadhaar card

The agency is also expected to maintain confidentiality and no information gathered during the course of association with the UIDAI is expected to be revealed

Even as the Supreme Court’s final verdict on the constitutional validity to India’s largest identity project is yet to be out, its implementing agency is looking for firms to gauge public sentiment about Aadhaar. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has put out a request for proposal (RFP), calling media monitoring firms to track press coverage for Aadhaar and submit regular reports to the authority. 

The RFP document mentions that the agency, which gets the contract, will be employed for an initial period of one year and its job will be to monitor all national, regional and vernacular newspapers and