PRIVATE ENTITIES MAY PROPOSE (SOCIAL WELFARE INNOVATION KNOWLEDGE) RULES -2020 IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PREVENTING DISSIPATION ALONG WITH IT'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE IT MINISTRY FOR OPINION.

The IT Ministry has proposed the new rules that would enable private entities to use Aadhaar authentication to enable ease of living and help in better access to services for the citizens.At present it is only up to the government ministries and departments that are allowed to undertake the Aadhaar authentication and under the Aadhaar authentication for good governance (Social welfare, Innovation Knowledge) Rules, 2020 in the interest of good governance, preventing leakage of the public funds and enablement of the innovation and the spread of the knowledge.Now it has been proposed that any entity other than government ministry or department that desire to use Aadhaar authentication for the purpose of promoting the ease of living and enabling better access to services or usage of the digital platforms to ensure the good governance ,or preventing dissipation of the social welfare benefits,or enabling innovation and spread of knowledge,shall prepare a proposal giving justification as to how the authentication sought is for one of the said purposes and also in the interest of state and if the ministry and the department is of the opinion that the proposal submitted fulfils such a purpose and is in the interest of the state , it will forward the purposal along with the recommendations to the IT Ministry for further action in the matter accordingly.

CYBER THREATENING TO THE VACCINE MANUFACTURERS AND REQUIRED DEFENCE

IT Ministry and its nodal agency working on the captioned subject matter deliberation noticed by the cyber security review conducted various meetings with the critical companies working for the vaccine, logistics, pharmaceuticals and power sector assisting them in shoring up their defence and helping them in many ways to protect the cyber security and attacks and assessing the weaknesses in the IT system and searching the strengthning  parameters.The measures taken by the GOI initiated over the cyber threatening from countries like China , Russia and Uzbekistan.Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Lupin limited alredy facing problems since October last year and now the health care companies and pharmaceutical companies have been on high alert as such the IT department has started verification of the perspective general security required for the vaccine manufacturers