Indian firm to lead Sri Lanka’s Digital ID Project
View(s):Sri Lanka is implementing a national digital identity system by engaging India’s National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) to oversee the roll out of its electronic National Identity Card (eNIC) project.
The programme under the Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity (SL-UDI) project by the Ministry of Digital Economy follows the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), an internationally recognised open-source platform developed in India.
The project will provide a secure, verifiable digital identity to every citizen to enhance public service access, governance, and be an ant-fraud safeguard, an official of the Ministry of Digital Economy disclosed.
The Sri Lankan Government, jointly with NISG, issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) near the end of June 2025 inviting an Indian Master Systems Integrator to create and deploy the eNIC system.
NISG will be responsible for deploying biometric enrollment and authentication systems, integrating MOSIP with Sri Lanka’s existing digital infrastructure and conducting pilot programs and onboarding the initial population. Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya emphasised that while India will assist in the system setup, all biometric and personal data will remain fully under Sri Lanka’s control. Data will be hosted on local servers, with no foreign access or external data transfers permitted.
The partnership with NISG is reflective of a deepening of Indo-Lanka digital ties and is seen as a strategic balancing of geopolitical influence by Sri Lanka while promoting its digitalisation. It also offers a low-cost, transparent, and scalable solution to create a foundational identity system aligned with global best practices, officials said.
The RFP deadline is August 5, 2025 for the rest of the work connected with the project.
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