UIDAI CEO Saurabh Vijay Takes on Additional Role to Lead IndiaAI Mission
In a significant leadership consolidation within India’s digital governance framework, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Saurabh Vijay, is set to take additional charge as the head of the IndiaAI Mission. The development comes weeks after former IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh was reassigned as Director General of the National Testing Agency, leaving the position vacant amid a broader bureaucratic reshuffle. The strategic decision aims to bring unprecedented synergy between India’s foundation-level digital public identity systems and its rapidly evolving sovereign artificial intelligence goals.
Vijay, a 1998-batch IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre with a civil engineering background from IIT Delhi, assumed charge at UIDAI in mid-May 2026 and will now dual-manage both organizations. By aligning the leadership of UIDAI and IndiaAI, the government plans to leverage large-scale operational expertise to accelerate cloud computing infrastructure, foster indigenous multilingual foundational models, and streamline...
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