MEITY issues notification to amend UIDAIs CIDR facilities

On April 13, 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) issued a Notification to supersede Notification No. G.S.R. 993(E), dated December 11, 2015. The notification specify “UIDAI’s Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) facilities, Information Assets, Logistics Infrastructure and Dependencies Installed at UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) locations to be Protected System for the Purpose of Information Technology Act 2000”.

The following has been stated namely: -

The computer resource of the Central Identities Data Repository of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and its following facilities and information assets to be a protected system for the purposes of Information Technology Act, 2000, namely: -

1. Bangalore Hebbal Data Centre (HDC)

2. Security Operations Centre of HDC

3. Network Operations Centre of HDC

4. Manesar Data Centre (MDC)

5. Security Operations Centre of MDC

6. Network Operations Centre of MDC

7. UIDAI Headquarters Security Operations Centre

8. Information Security Division and Enforcement Wings of UIDAI Head Quarter

9. Cyber Forensic Laboratory at UIDAI Head Quarter

10. Logistics Infrastructure and Dependencies installed at UIDAI.