New Delhi, April 14 -- As India's data privacy law approaches notification, another law that is behind a unique identification number for citizens is being prepped for overhaul to bring it in sync with the new privacy law, a move industry experts said is overdue but needs wider consultation.

Bhuvnesh Kumar, the new chief executive of Uidai (Unique Identification Authority of India), the governing body behind Aadhaar identification, said in a conversation with Mint that discussions "will now begin and take its due course of lawmaking" for a new law to replace the near-decade-old Aadhaar Act, 2016.

"Just an amendment won't be sufficient-we need a new law to bring Aadhaar up to speed with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act)...