Bengaluru: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was responsible for some wasteful expenditure, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has observed in its report for 2016.
Recalling that the authority, which was responsible for distributing Aadhaar identities to the citizens, had entered into a contract with Wipro Limited in May 2011 for ‘Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Servers, Storage Systems, Security Systems and Accessories with Incidental Services’ at its Data Centres at Bengaluru and Delhi/NCR at a cost of Rs 134.28 crore.
But, the report said, both agencies later deviated from the terms of the original contract terms and entered into a fresh Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) retrospectively, leading to an avoidable expenditure of '4.92 crore.
