In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.
On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.
In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.
In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.
In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.
"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Krishnaswamy
Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

10812 - What the U.S. can learn from India’s move toward a cashless society - Washington Post


By Vivek Wadhwa January 23

India has made efforts to move toward an economy less dependent on cash. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley fancies itself the global leader in innovation. Its leaders hype technologies such as bitcoin and blockchain, which some claim are the greatest inventions since the Internet. They are so complex that only a few mathematicians can understand them, and they require massive computing resources to operate — yet billions of dollars are invested in them.

India may have leapfrogged the U.S. technology industry with simple and practical innovations and massive grunt work. It has built a digital infrastructure that will soon process billions more transactions than bitcoin ever has. With this, India will skip two generations of financial technologies and build something as monumental as China’s Great Wall and America’s interstate highways.

A decade ago, India had a massive problem: nearly half its people did not have any form of identification. When you are born in a village without hospitals or government services, you don’t get a birth certificate. If you can’t prove who you are, you can’t open a bank account or get a loan or insurance; you are doomed to be part of the informal economy — whose members live in the shadows and don’t pay taxes.

In 2009, the government launched a massive project, called Aadhar, to solve this problem by providing a digital identity to everyone based on an individual’s fingerprints and retina scans. As of 2016, the program had issued 12-digit identification numbers to 1.1 billion people. This was the largest and most successful I.T. project in the world and created the foundation for a digital economy.

India’s next challenge was to provide everyone with a bank account. Its government sanctioned the opening of 11 institutions called payment banks, which can hold money but don’t do lending.  To motivate people to open accounts, it offered free life insurance with them and made them a channel for social-welfare benefits.  Within three years, more than 270 million bank accounts were opened, with $10 billion in deposits.
And then India launched its Unified Payment Interface (UPI), a way for banks to transfer money directly to one another based on a single identifier, such as the Aadhar number.

Take the way that credit-card payments are processed: When you present your card to a store, the cashier verifies your signature and transmits your credit-card information to a billing processor such as Visa, American Express or MasterCard — which works with the sending and receiving banks. The billing processors act as a custodian and clearing house. In return for this service, they charge the merchants a fee of 2 to 3 percent of the transaction. This is a tax that is indirectly passed on to the customer.
With a system such as UPI, the billing processor is eliminated, and transaction costs are close to zero. The mobile phone and a personal identification number take the place of the credit card as the authentication factor. All you do is to download a free app and enter your identification number and bank PIN, and you can instantly transfer money to anyone — regardless of which bank he or she uses.

There is no technology barrier to prevent a UPI from working in the United States. Transfers would happen within seconds, even faster than the 10 minutes that a bitcoin transaction takes.
India has just introduced another innovation called India Stack.  

This is a series of secured and connected systems that allow people to store and share personal data such as addresses, bank statements, medical records, employment records and tax filings, and it enables the digital signing of documents. The user controls what information is shared and with whom, and electronic signature occurs through biometric authentication.

Take the example of opening a mobile-phone account. It is cumbersome everywhere, because the telecom carriers need to verify the user’s identity and credit history. In India, it often took days to produce all the documents that the government required. With the new “know-your-customer” procedures that are part of India Stack, all that is needed is a thumb print or retina scan, and an account can be opened within minutes. The same can be done for medical records. Imagine being able to share these with doctors and clinics as and when necessary.  This is surely possible for us in the United States, but we aren’t doing it because no trusted central authority has stepped up to the task.

India Stack will also transform how lending is done. The typical villager currently has no chance of getting a small-business loan, because he or she lacks a credit history and verifiable credentials. Now people can share information from their digital lockers, such as bank statements, utility bill payments and life insurance policies, and loans can be approved almost instantaneously on the basis of verified data. This is a more open system than the credit0scoring services that U.S. businesses use.

In November, in a move to curb corruption and eliminate counterfeit bills, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shocked the country by announcing the discontinuation of all 500- and 1,000-rupee (about $7 and $14) notes — which account for roughly 86 percent of all money in circulation. The move disrupted the entire economy, caused pain and suffering, and was widely criticized. Yet it was a bold move that will surely produce long-term benefit, because it will accelerate the push to digital currency and the modernization of the Indian economy.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that the United States should follow Modi’s lead in phasing out currency and moving toward a digital economy, because it would have “benefits that outweigh the cost.” Speaking of the inequity and corruption that is becoming an issue in the United States and all over the world, he said: “I believe very strongly that countries like the United States could and should move to a digital currency so that you would have the ability to trace this kind of corruption. There are important issues of privacy, cybersecurity, but it would certainly have big advantages.”

We are not ready to become a cashless society, but there are many lessons that Silicon Valley and the United States can learn from the developing world.


Read more from The Washington Post’s Innovations section

10811 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 27th January 2017



Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Even as the Aadhaar enrolment touched 111 crore on Republic Day, the total savings by the central and state exchequers by deploying it ...






Economic Times
"More than 100-crore Indians have Aadhaar. Many customers complain about not receiving the debit cards or PIN. We already have an ATM which ...






Moneycontrol.com
Govt pores over legal sanctity of mandatory-Aadhaar services. The Centre is examining whether or not mandatory usage of Aadhaar violates a 2015 ...






Hindu Business Line
The Aadhaar scheme is instituted and operated by the Unique Authority of India (UIDAI) and in 2015, the Supreme Court had restricted the voluntary ...






Financial Express
The chief ministers' panel on digital transactions headed by N Chandrababu Naidu recommends transactions should be inter-operable and Aadhaar ...






Hindu Business Line
The process requires a tablet, and a dongle to recognise the Aadhaar identity and synchronise the credit bureau data and e-sign of the borrower.






Hindu Business Line
The first update to the BHIM mobile App-which was launched with a lot of fanfare on December 30 — has introduced 'Pay to Aadhaar' number as a ...




Zee News
The updated BHIM also adds the Pay to Aadhaar Number payment option, with which users can transfer money to the Aadhaar number linked with the ...


10810 - Note ban: Modi followed script by Google, Visa, Paytm, says scribe

Photo by Sanjeev Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of people waiting in queues for cash outside an ATM of Sutlej Gramin Bank in Bathinda, Punjab, in December, 2016

Note ban: Modi followed script by Google, Visa, Paytm, says scribe

German business journalist and blogger Norbert Häring in his latest blogpost on Tuesday writes on how in July, 2016, Boston Consulting Group and Google laid down the road map for demonetisation

Norbert Häring
Jan 25th 2017, 04.37 PM

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the omnipresent US-consulting company, and Google, the global data miner, issued a joint report in July 2016 on the “$500 billion Pot of Gold”, which is the Indian digital payment market.

Even though the authors deny it, the report gives much reason to suspect that the authors knew that something radical was imminent from the Indian government. The report is remarkably honest about the aims of the whole exercise.

There is no statement in the BCG-Google-report “Digital Payments 2020” to the effect that it is related to the joint initiative of USAID and the Indian ministry of finance, formally established in 2015, to push back the use of cash and promote digital payments. Rather it is presented as a freestanding initiative of BCG and Google.

I reached out to one of the authors, BCG’s senior partner Alpesh Shah, to ask about this and he insisted:“This was a joint BCG-Google report, with no connection/ relation to USAID/Indian Ministry of Finance.” However, there is much to suggest that there was a connection.

First of all, the subject so perfectly fits with the program of that partnership. The subtitle of the report is “The Making of a $500 billion ecosystem in India”. The steering committee for the report included a representative of Visa, member of the Better Than Cash Alliance together with USAID and affiliate of the partnership of USAID and Indian finance ministry to advance digital payments. It also included Paytm and Vodafone, which are also part of the CATALYST coalition, a project, which according to USAID, is a “next step” in said partnership of USAID and the Indian finance ministry.

The report is a call to arms for all payment service providers. They are alerted that things are going to be shaken up in India. On page three it says:

“We expect the digital payments space to witness significant disruption in the days ahead.”

Photo by Ravi Choudhary/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

File photo of people standing in queue for banking transactions outside a bank in Delhi in December, 2016

The disruption came on November 8, when Prime Minister Modi decreed that most of the cash notes by value were no longer legal means of payment. By itself, the remark about the “disruption in the days ahead” might be considered suggestive, but weak evidence that BCG and Google knew something of those plans.

However, combine this with the fact that they forecast a tenfold increase of digital payments and of the merchant acceptance network by 2020 without giving any real compelling reason why such an unlikely development should come to pass.

In fact, the report is pretty heavy on reasons why it will be difficult to get many more merchants on board and says that the acceptance network has more or less stagnated in recent years. From stagnant, the growth rate has to jump to at least 60 percent per year (if you want to start 2015, more if the baseline is 2016) to make the forecast of a tenfold increase by 2020 come true.

The only real reason given in the report for the expected stellar increase is mobile payment apps becoming available. This is not a very convincing reason for a large jump in the growth rate, as these apps have been around for a number of years already.

“By itself, the remark about the “disruption in the days ahead” might be considered suggestive, but weak evidence that BCG and Google knew something of those plans. However, combine this with the fact that they forecast a tenfold increase of digital payments and of the merchant acceptance network by 2020 without giving any real compelling reason why such an unlikely development should come to pass.”
Norbert Häring

Asked about the apparent improbability of the forecast – barring knowledge of the impending banning of most cash notes – Mr. Shah nonetheless insists that the authors knew nothing of Modi’s plans and adds:

“We saw no option for the country but to try and move digital, and we could see some of the trends in that already. Add to that the Indian government’s stated objective of going digital, and we arrived at the conclusion that this was the most likely scenario, with the government incentivising non-cash (as has been seen in many countries).”

BCG and Google did not leave it to the government to follow up on their stated objective, but wanted to help by listing a number of “tasks of the government”.

Instructions included first and foremost that the government build awareness of the cost of cash by talking about the "cost of printing notes, countering counterfeiting (by several means, including periodically introducing new series of currency notes and withdrawing existing ones), and indirect costs (loss of tax revenue, creation /prevalence of black-market money etc.).”

One cannot blame the Modi-government of being disobedient. Modi has been talking of little else with such persistence and resolve as about the cost of cash and the cost of countering counterfeiting and tax avoidance which is facilitated by cash. He made all ordinary Indians feel the "cost of periodically introducing new series of currency notes and withdrawing existing ones”.


FORGET ABOUT THAT FINANCIAL INCLUSION TALK
The refreshing thing about this report is that BCB (sic) and Google skip all the talk about financial inclusion, helping the poor and all that. The frankness must have to do with their intended audience, which is not the general public, but rather payment services providers and the government.

The results of the large survey among merchants and consumers that they commissioned make it plain that those merchants and consumers who do not yet rely on digital payments are not longing for a chance to do so. The survey indicated they are completely happy with using cash and think the requirements for digital payment are too complicated for them.

“The “tasks from regulators and government” which BCG and Google list in their report are not part of a non-existent chapter on helping the poor or helping India develop, but part of the chapter “Grabbing the opportunity – the winning agenda”. In other words, the government is urged to help Visa and Google to grab the pot of gold.”
Norbert Häring

The study authors leave no room for doubt, that the digitalization drive is all about business and nothing else. One chapter-header reads, “India Digital Payments – A $500 Pot of Gold” and the authors calculate that the projected $500 bn of digital payments a year translates into $5 bn in revenue.

Google would not be Google, if the giant data miner did not have some ideas to make the pot even a little bigger. “Mine customer data to build additional revenue streams” is their advice to payment services providers. BCG and Google promise that mining customer data will help them to get consumers to buy more. “Payments will drive consumption – and not the other way around” is an insight they want to drive home.

The “tasks from regulators and government” which BCG and Google list in their report are not part of a non-existent chapter on helping the poor or helping India develop, but part of the chapter “Grabbing the opportunity – the winning agenda”. In other words, the government is urged to help Visa and Google to grab the pot of gold.


WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT
And the government certainly was willing and ready to help.

In August, one month after BCG and Google presented their report, the government assembled a committee, the Watal-Committee, to see what it could do and have the necessary legal acts readied.

The committee came up with a long list of measures, laws and rule that would help the payment industry grab the pot of gold, including exempting imported digital payment equipment from tariffs. Declaring most cash notes void and leaving the population without sufficient cash for months was of course the best thing for enlarging the pot of gold for payments services providers that anybody could have imagined.

All of this, of course, is not just intended to help Google, Visa and the payment services providers from India and Asia on the steering committee of this report. The bulk of the pot can be expected to be grabbed by the payment services industry of the US (empasis added). As a recent “Framework for FinTech” issued by the US National Economic Council states:

“The United States remains the global leader in fintech as measured by total investments. However, the U.S. leadership position in fintech should not be taken for granted. The U.S. government should continue to develop a policy strategy that helps advance the sector (…) and maintain a robust competitive advantage in the technology and financial services sectors.”

The whitepaper refers to “Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade: 2016 Annual Report” where we learn that exports of banking services in 2015 have been $74.2 bn and imports $17.9 bn, for a very solid excess of exports over imports of $56.3 bn or 400 percent.

This is what the Indian digitalization effort and the friendly help of USAID, the Gates Foundation, Visa, Mastercard and other seekers of the pot of gold is all about: “a policy strategy that helps advance the sector and maintain a robust competitive advantage" for the US payments industry.


Norbert Häring is a business journalist with a focus on monetary issues, based in Germany. He tweets at @norberthaering


This article first appeared on the writer’s blog on January 24, 2017

10809 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th January 2017





Economic Times
The government is weighing the option to allow usage of Aadhaar Card for people who do not have a PAN card. The Ratan Watalpanel report for ...





The Hindu
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics, IT, Law and Justice, at a stall during the Digi Dhan Mela in Mangaluru on Wednesday.



Calcutta Telegraph
25: The Centre has set a March 31 deadline for an estimated 10 crore workers under the national job scheme MGNREGA to get Aadhaar-enrolled to ...






Hindustan Times
Aadhaar-based mobile payment app BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is now available on Google Play Store with an updated version. The new ...



Times Now
'Link All Donations To Parties To Aadhaar Card' Description: Speaking on THE NEWSHOUR on ADR report confirming 70% of the funding of political ...





Hindustan Times
“BLO had told us that Aadhaar card has been made mandatory and its number should be included in EPIC,” said Surjeet Singh, a resident of Surajpur, ...






Times of India
RANCHI : With 90% of the Aadhaar seeding of students from government schools coming to a close, the school education and literacy department has ...






Livemint
New security features and payment to Aadhaar number linked with the bank account has been introduced. An option 'spam report' has been activated ...



Bureaucracy Today
In this regard, TRAI last year had recommended acceptance and adoption of Aadhaar based e-KYC service along with Aadhaar based e-Sign as a ...






findBIOMETRICS
Government authorities in India are considering enabling the use of Aadhaar for income tax returns. Indian Government Mulls Linking Biometric ID ...






Pragativadi
... interoperable bank and banking correspondent payments through Aadhaar enabled payment system (AEPS), create infrastructure for over 1.5 lakh ...






domain-B
For instance, your finger will act as a bank, it would be Aadhaar-based. A merchant having a smartphone needs only a biometric device that costs only ...

10808 - Chief ministers' panel on digital economy suggests taxing cash transaction - Indian Express




Reuters image used for representational purpose

NEW DELHI With a few days to go for the unveiling of the Union Budget, the chief ministers' panel headed by the Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu on promotion of digital economy suggested a slew of measures, including taxing cash transactions over Rs 50,000 and a subsidy of Rs 1000 to non-income tax assesses to buy smartphones, besides abolition of MDR on lower value of transactions.

Naidu has said that the panel would submit its interim report to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sources said that the recommendations of the panel would be given top priority by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for consideration to include suggestions in the Budget.

"Mobile-based USSD using aadhar number will start by month end by NPCI.  Relief in prospective taxes for encouraging merchant to accept digital payment and no retrospective taxation to merchants are among the suggestions of the CMs' panel," said a senior official, while adding that the tax incentives would be extended to merchants using the biometric sensors. He added that the panel has also argued for tax refund for consumers using digital payment, besides extending 50 percent subsidy to all merchant points for aadhar-enabled biometric payment system.

"The panel is also of the view that a subsidy of Rs 1000 be extended to buy smartphones for non-income tax assesses or small merchants. It has also suggested that the government should provide infrastructure to 154000 post offices for cashless transactions, besides promoting contactless payment for travelling modes," added the official.

The panel has.also suggested that Aadhar be made primary KYC in banks. " The panel has also suggested that in a bid to curb use of cash for large transaction the government should consider levy of banking cash transaction tax on transaction of Rs 50000 and above.


It has also suggested that the government should consider a cap on minimum allowable limit of cash in all type of large ticket size transactions. Also all government sectors like insurance, education institutions, fertilisers, petroleum etc should switch to digital payment mode

10807 - Aadhaar Articles dated 25th January 2017



YourStory.com
But driven by instinctive decision-making and being a believer in people's capabilities, Pramod and his bets on technology have made Aadhaar one of ...






Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The government is weighing the option to allow usage of Aadhaar Card for people who do not have a PAN card. The Ratan Watalpanel ...




findBIOMETRICS
Aadhaar-Based System Lets New Aircel Subscribers Register Via Selfie The solution combines Safran's GSMA Mobile Connect authentication ...






Deccan Chronicle
For Aadhaar-linked payments, biometric sensors should be provided at 50 per cent subsidy to all merchant points, the panel has recommended.






VCCircle
The government is reportedly moving to popularise Aadhaar Pay, an app that will allow people to seamlessly make payments using just their Aadhaar ...






Mid-Day
“We seized 460 bogus customer verification forms, 60 fake stamps of different shops and Aadhaar and election cards. Then, on January 21, we further ...



Free Press Journal
“All the department employees have been asked to register themselves and the registration is done by using the Aadhaar Card.” said Anilraj Kaveskar ...






Zee Business
The interim report stated that Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) must take action to make Aadhaar a primary KYC (Know Your ...



telanganatoday
Tax refund for consumers using digital payment upto a certain proportion of their annual income besides providing Aadhaar Pay, Biometric sensors at ...






Zee News
It also suggested that for Aadhaar Pay, Biometric (FP & Iris) sensors should be provided at 50 per cent subsidy to all merchant points. The panel said ...






The Indian Express
According to Panagariya, cash transfers would be feasible only after all beneficiaries have Aadhaar seeded bank accounts and Aadhaar verification ...






MediaNama.com
Note that the UPI is a part of the IndiaStack along with the GSTN, Aadhaar Auth, eKYC, eSign, and DigiLocker. (Nikhil Pahwa adds: UPI is owned and ...






Moneylife
The report laid emphasis on the use of Aadhaar and said this unique identity number must be made the primary identity point for the "know yo

10806 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 24th January 2017



The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: UIDAI is expected to make it compulsory, in the next 4-5 months, for all biometric devices using Aadhaar authentication to embed ...



Tech2
The Aadhaar-linked e-KYC (Know Your Customer) service has already been rolled out to allow telecom service providers to verify new Sim card ...



Economic Times
... account holders submit scanned copies of their PAN and Aadhaar cards. Experts said bank accountholders who have not cleared the KYC process, ...






Times of India
Another official said linking of Aadhaar number will help in declaration of results and issuing of certificates online as well as providing other facilities ...






Economic Times
Though few people in the West know of Aadhaar, it has been the largest and most successful information technology project in the world. There was ...






Pune Mirror
After Aadhaar cards were made compulsory at the Pune airport, a biometric system will soon be put in place to strengthen the existing security at the ...






The New Indian Express
Centre's initiative JAM (short for Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) trinity is the bedrock of many initiatives to link Jan Dhan accounts, Mobile numbers and ...






The Hindu
He noted that for GST enrolling, a trader needed an Aadhaar number and a TAN (tax indication number). Since there were thousands of traders ...






The New Indian Express
The first page of their ration/Aadhaar cards and passbooks should be sent with the application, which will be sent to the District Collector.






Economic Times
India is also trying to push biometric authentication — primarily fingerprints and iris scans — for Aadhaar-based transactions. Talking about the use of ...






Indiainfoline
With the introduction of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS), we anticipate infrastructural changes in the ATM sector enabling safer and faster ...

10805 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 23rd January 2017



Economic Times
Aadhaar Pay, which is merchant version of the already in use Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AEPS), will become an alternative for all online and ...



Tech2
Aadhaar is the largest biometrics programme in the world. What started out in 2008 as an effort to create a national identification programme, soon ...






Times of India
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai is likely to recommend to the Department of Telecom (DoT) that Aadhaar-based eKYC be allowed even for ...






Moneycontrol.com
UIDAI is expected to make it compulsory, in next 4-5 months, for all biometric devices using Aadhaar authentication to embed Aadhaar encryption key ...






Financial Express
Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has made it mandatory for all pensioners and members to submit Aadhaar number. Members and ...






Swarajya
New Government Push For Aadhaar Pay: The government is pushing to popularise Aadhaar Pay in a bid to expand digital payments among the poor ...






Financial Express
The NDA government has also done well to enlarge the direct benefit transfer (DBT) platform and make the Aadhaar-enabled beneficiary identification ...






NewsClick
This is the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS). All we need for digital transactions, or so the argument goes, is our Aadhaar number, tied to our ...






Huffington Post India
Keen to push digital payments among the poor and illiterate in rural areas of the country, the government is pushing to popularise Aadhaar Pay which ...






Times of India
The system is based on Aadhaar number of individuals. Once a patient is registered in the system, doctors sitting in any hospital can access his or her ...






The Hindu
The police are also exploring the option of linking the server to the Aadhaar database for verifying backgrounds of Aadhaar card applicants.






Inc42 Magazine (press release) (blog)
The Swiss team was exposed to the India Stack – comprising open API, Aadhaar, India's advanced digital authentication system, which stands to ...