Ram Sewak Sharma credited to have designed key digital services, such as digital locker, digitize India and fast execution of schemes to push electronics manufacturing in the country.
Modi government has reappointed Ram Sewak Sharma as TRAI chairperson till September 30, 2020, the official order read. Sharma, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, has played key role in implementing Aadhaar project and designing road-map for government's Digital India programme.
He is credited to have designed key digital services, such as digital locker, digitize India and fast execution of schemes to push electronics manufacturing in the country.
Sharma was recently in headlines over sharing his aadhaar number on micro-blogging site Twitter challenging anyone to show how mere knowledge of the number can be misused to harm him, triggering a deluge of tweets that claimed to disclose his personal details -- from PAN to mobile number.
The challenge by Sharma had evoked an immediate response on the social media platform, managing to create quite a stir with some users claiming to have dug up his mobile number, photo, residential address, date of birth, even chat threads using the information, and others warning him about the perils of throwing such a dare on the social media platform.
Later, UIDAI strongly dismissed the claims made on social media that Sharma’s details were fetched using his Aadhaar number.
UIDAI said that Aadhaar had built digital trust among people at large and these devious elements are trying to spread misinformation. They said that the Aadhaar database was ‘safe’, and its ‘robustness’ had been proved over the last eight years.
They claimed that the information about RS Sharma wasn’t fetched from the Aadhaar database or UIDAI’s servers. They said the ‘hacked’ info, was already available in the public domain as he was a public servant for decades and was ‘easily available’ on Google.
The statement said: “They (Twitter users) boasted that they had got Shri Sharma’s aforesaid personal details by hacking Aadhaar database. This so-called claim, UIDAI said, is a farce and people should not believe such fraudulent elements active on social and other media. Aadhaar database is fully safe and secure and no such information about Mr Sharma has been fetched from UIDAI’s severs or Aadhaar database. This is merely cheap publicity by these unscrupulous elements who try to attract attention by creating such fake news.”
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