UIDAI to SC: Tender expired, no plan to hire agency for social media management
The Indian Express The UIDAI said the tender was put on hold till further directions after the PIL was filed. In the present case, UIDAI told the court that the tender for hiring the agency was floated in 2018 through the Central Procurement Portal. With its plans to hire an agency for social media management coming under legal challenge, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the tender floated for this had “expired”, and it had no plans to revive that. The UIDAI communicated this to a bench of Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, which was hearing a PIL by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra who alleged that the project was intended for “mounting surveillance on social media platforms”. The UIDAI said the tender was put on hold till further directions after the PIL was filed. Moitra had earlier challenged the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s plan to set up a social media hub. Following the litigati...