Voters' info in non-govt. hands

THE report that the data centre containing all the vital information about voters as well as the password for the voter registration department is controlled by a private agency and the members on the staff of a project under the voter registration wing of the EC is quite unsettling
It is worthwhile to note that the said private agency, Tiger IT, was contracted by the EC in June, 2010 to modernise the voters' information storage system under the National Identity Card Registration Act-2010. And the project named IDEA, under the voter registration department, was created between 2010 and 2013 with World Bank's financial assistance to provide voters with improved national identity card.
It gives one the jitters to think that the contractor, who was supposed to hand over the data centre to the EC by June 30, 2012, has not yet done it. Worse still, the staff members of the project under voter registration department are learnt to have been ignoring EC's authority in the matter.  
But how could things come to such a pass when article 6 of the National Identity Card Registration Act-2010 provides that the Election Commission (EC) will conduct all the work relating to preparation, registration, distribution and maintenance of national identity cards?  
Since it involves privacy and security of all the individual citizens as well as of the state, the EC cannot be mere spectator to it. As the custodian of the voters, it must exercise its authority and restore its control on the data centre and the voter registration department.