SITAA — Scheme for Innovation & Technology Association with Aadhaar
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Building Bharat's ID Tech Ecosystem

To foster open innovation under the SITAA initiative, UIDAI invites startups and academic institutions to develop indigenous, scalable ID-Tech solutions that enhance the Aadhaar ecosystem and strengthen India’s Digital Public Infrastructure.

Challenges for Startups
2
Challenges for Academia
1
Funding Startups
Up to ₹2.5 Cr.
Funding Academia
Up to ₹5 Cr.

Innovation Challenges

Audience

Startups

2 challenges
For Startups Only

Contactless Fingerprint Authentication

To develop AI/ML-based solutions for contactless finger authentication, enabling accurate identity verification without physical touch and evaluate models for image capture, feature extraction, and matching under varied lighting and angles, ensuring high accuracy, speed, and spoof resistance for secure biometric authentication.

For Startups Only

Face Liveness Detection

To develop AI/ML-based face liveness detection systems that integrate both passive and active liveness methods and capable of detecting physical attacks (print, replay, masks, morphs) and digital attacks (deepfakes, adversarial manipulations).

Audience

Academia

1 challenge
For Academia Only

Presentation Attack Detection (PAD)

To create Datasets, Research and Develop AI/ML-based Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) techniques to identify and prevent spoofing attempts during face authentication.

Resources

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MSH Website
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UIDAI Website

For technical queries, please reach out to the MSH team.

Mail ID - executiveportal-msh@govcontractor.in