PAN card will have Aadhaar number
New Delhi, April 27, DHNS:
Soon your PAN card may also have your unique 16-digit Aadhaar number. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is in the task of giving unique number to every citizen of the country, is working with the Income Tax department to print the Aadhaar number in the PAN card.
UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani held several rounds of talks with the Income Tax officials to rollout PAN card with unique digit number. “The IT department has in principle agreed for UID-based PAN cards”, Nilekani said, adding that “details are still being worked out”.
With this development, the Income Tax department, which had earlier planned to issue bio-metric PAN card, has put on hold its plan to avoid duplication.
As the Aadhaar, earlier known as Unique Identification Number, will be issued after collection of prints of all ten fingers, iris and face, the government doesn’t want the duplication by doing the same at the IT department, sources in the government said.