Over the course of UPA-II and Narendra Modi’s first government, Aadhaar was mandated to link with a range of government services, and such a move attracted significant opposition. 2 Multiple court cases, government committees and public debates, since then, have significantly shifted India’s data governance needle towards building a cogent framework on regulating technology. This brief explores the benefits and issues with the integration of voter ID data with Aadhaar, keeping the evolution of data governance in India in mind.

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A version of this paper was also published in Data Governance Network.

Note: This work was done by the author/s when they were a part of the IDFC Institute and is republished here with permission.

• Aadhaar
• Data Governance
• Technology