Tuesday, February 21, 2017

10853 - AADHAAR ARTICLES DATED 20TH FEBRUARY 2017



Times of India
JAIPUR: The state education department has made Aadhaar card compulsory for students applying for admission in private schools under the 25% ...



Bangalore Mirror
As the move has been accepted by colleges in the city, some colleges have even declared a holiday for students who do not have Aadhaar cards, ...






Deccan Chronicle
If they were to remake that 1975 classic, 'Deewar', today, the guy playing the Shashi Kapoor role would flaunt his Aadhaar card rather than his mom, ...




Financial Express
aadhaar card, aadhar As a result of this, though the taxman collects data on certain types of high-profile expenditure like sales of cars, gold, overseas ...




News Today
Chennai: Worried in getting Aadhaar cards for your children? Need not anymore. Head to the common service centre recognised by Department of ...






Deccan Chronicle
Indian digital cartography leader MapmyIndia last week launched eLoc, India's first nationwide digital address system, which is like an Aadhaar ...






BGR India
The quote came in response to a meeting by the Telecom Department on the issue of re-verification of existing subscribers through Aadhaar-based ...



Hindu Business Line
“A target has been set to make cent percent online entries of Aadhaar numbers of the eligible beneficiaries by month-end under the ongoing campaign ...






VCCircle
Nadella said that a payment infrastructure being built on top of Aadhaar using cloud (NPCI) and a diagnostic application (Collaborative Digital ...



The Hindu
Though the district ranks second in the State with 99% Aadhaar enrolment, people in Dakshina Kannada have to wait for more than a month to get ...






Bangalore Mirror
Even the RGUHS vice-chancellor seemed unconvinced with the move to verify with Aadhaar and address proof. Dr KS Ravindranath said: “Though it ...






NDTV
5) EPFO has now made furnishing of Aadhaar by subscribers mandatory. The body recently extended the deadline for submitting Aadhaar for its ...






The Arunachal Times
Briefing about the recent trends in centrally sponsored schemes, he apprised that fund allocation is liability driven, and that Aadhaar-based DBT and ...






Calcutta Telegraph
... Madhya Pradesh government is planning to link all the 5.34-crore beneficiaries under the public distribution system in the state to their Aadhaar card ...






Forbes India
Aadhaar, which now has enrolled a billion Indians, started with the ID and has now facilitated the world's first inter-operable mobile-based payments ...






NYOOOZ
Summary: Every farmer needs to submit voter ID card or Aadhaar card , record of right, bank details and recent photos. SINGUR: After receiving a poor ...






The Hans India
The District Collector said that two stalls would be installed in the banks, one for those with Aadhaar cards and another for those without Aadhar cards.






International Business Times, India Edition
Simply by submitting the eKYC documents and verifying through Aadhaar and fingerprint scans, one can get an active Jio SIM card with Happy New ...

10852 - AADHAAR ARTICLES DATED 19TH FEBRUARY 2017



Deccan Chronicle
Hyderabad: Aadhaar enrolment has increased sharply in the two Telugu states, post demonetisation. With the Central and state governments linking ...






The Indian Express
“A target has been set to make cent percent online entries of Aadhaar numbers of the eligible beneficiaries by February end under the ongoing ...




The Indian Express
The Railway Recruitment Board announced that Aadhaar cards would make the verification process convenient and hassle free. (File photo).






Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Re-verification of existing mobile subscribers through Aadhaar-based eKYC will cost an estimated Rs 2,500 crore, mobile operators' ...



NDTV
EPFO has made it mandatory for all subscribers as well as pensioners to submit their Aadhaar number. This will help linking EPF account, pension ...






Times of India
"The system is linked to the Aadhaar database of farmers for direct payment into their bank accounts; they are informed of the status through SMS and ...

10851 - Don’t make Aadhaar mandatory for food subsidy, say activists - THE HINDU


SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

CHANDIGARH FEBRUARY 18, 2017 01:04 IST


Expressing discontentment over the Centre’s notification to make Aadhaar number mandatory for accessing subsidised food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), members of the Right to Food Campaign (RFC) have demanded that such notifications be revoked.

RFC’s convener Kavita Srivastava said that on the February 8, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution made possession of an Aadhaar number mandatory for accessing subsidised food grains under the NFSA. Earlier, on February 6, the Ministry of Women and Child Development had issued a notification that made Aadhaar a must for Anganwadi workers and helpers. Last month, the Ministry of Rural Development made it mandatory for all MGNREGA workers to get Aadhaar numbers by March 31.

“These notifications are in blatant violation of Supreme Court orders which unequivocally make Aadhaar ‘purely voluntary’ till a final judgement is passed in the matter, and stand despite the passage of the Aadhaar Act of 2016,” she said, adding that apart from this disregard for the rule of law, the notifications betray the Centre’s unwillingness to learn from the experience of large-scale exclusion of people caused by making legally guaranteed services contingent upon producing an Aadhaar number.


‘Poor will be hit’
Ms. Srivastava pointed out that by making the Aadhaar mandatory, the Centre is effectively hitting out at the most vulnerable. “In the PDS specifically, data from Jharkhand and Rajasthan shows that up to 30% of beneficiaries are not being able to receive entitlements through the Aadhaar-linked biometric authentication system,” she said.

Ms. Srivastava said that while the need of the hour is to make these schemes accessible for all by removing any bottlenecks, making the UID mandatory only serves to exclude the poorest and most marginalised.

“Aadhaar system requires the Internet, electricity, a functional PoS machine, remote servers and sometimes mobile networks. We believe that access to food under the NFSA cannot be made dependent upon a system that requires multiple fragile technologies to work simultaneously and perfectly,” she added.

10850 - AADHAAR ARTICLES DATED 18TH FEBRUARY 2017



NDTV
New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO has extended the deadline for submitting Aadhaar number till March 31 by its ovr four crore members.



The Hindu
Expressing discontentment over the Centre's notification to make Aadhaar number mandatory for accessing subsidised food grains under the National ...






Hindustan Times
Those receiving these scholarships but who don't have an Aadhaar card will have to apply for enrolment by June 30 this year, the ministry said in a ...





Greater Kashmir
To avail benefit under the Central Sector Scholarship Scheme for College and University students, applicants will now have to furnish proof of ...






Calcutta Telegraph
New Delhi, Feb.17: Retirement fund body EPFO has extended the deadline for submitting the Aadhaar number till March 31 by its over four crore ...






Daily Pioneer
In the meeting, bottling plant, cylinder supply, aadhaar number issuance and seeding of aadhaar numbers in bank accounts were also reviewed.






Free Press Journal
Indore: The Crime Branch officials arrested six persons for selling Reliance Jio SIMs to public illegally. The accused fraudulently used Aadhaar ...

Saturday, February 18, 2017

10849 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 17th February 2017



Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has extended the date for providing the Aadhaar number, to March 31, and has ...



The Hindu
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has made Aadhaar mandatory for providing scholarships to meritorious school students of ...






Financial Express
All individuals who have not received their Aadhaar cards yet, or haven't even enrolled themselves for the Aadhaar card, need to get up and ...



The Wire
The moment the court raised questions of laws, the circular making Aadhaar mandatory was withdrawn by the central government. Notably, in 2013 ...






Financial Express
The PAN-Aadhaar combination will not only make the tracking of individuals easier, it will also be a big source to gather banking transaction ...






Daily Pioneer
Sixty-two per cent of the bank accounts had been linked to Aadhaar number under the Prime Minister Jan -Dhan Yojana in Chhattisgarh.






Bar & Bench
Interestingly, the order of the High Court comes at a time when the Central government has made Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits under PDS ...






Times of India
DigiLocker is a dedicated personal storage space of 1GB that is linked to each Indian's Aadhaar number. All that is required for signing up to the ...






NDTV
Candidates should note that the provisions of the Aadhaar Act and the Regulations under the Act have come into effect from 14 September 2016 and ...






Firstpost
The PM has carried on with the subsidy reforms baton from his predecessors such as the UPA government's Aadhaar-based Direct Benefit Transfer ...






The Hindu
People don't need to carry passbooks, cheque books, debit and credit cards for withdrawal in future. Their Aadhaar-linked thumb impressions will be ...






State Times
The delegation also drew the attention of the Governor towards the issue with regard to Aadhaar being made mandatory for distribution or rations at ...






Free Press Journal
Talking about digital payments, he said: “After the Aadhaar, you consider the digital payments system that is fast developing. Earlier, loans and ...






Telangana Today
The university has decided to take biometric details of the candidates who appear for the examination. This apart, the Aadhaar number has been ...

Friday, February 17, 2017

10848 - Data is the new oil, Jio stands for affordability: Mukesh Ambani - Indian Express

By IANS  |   Published: 15th February 2017 07:55 PM  |  

               Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani. | PTI


MUMBAI: Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said the company's newly-launched telecom venture Reliance Jio stands for affordability and data is the new oil in the industry.

"Jio was conceived at a time when the world was fast digitising. What the Jio platform offers is partner with the next generation to solve problems for India to make sure our industries are more productive," Ambani said.

"To my mind, data is the new natural resource. In that sense, India is blessed with 1.3 billion people, for it to have real value it has to be processed into intelligence. Data is the new oil and its benefit is immense to society. India with its young population will have a competitive advantage," he added.

He was speaking at an interactive session at the Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2017 here.

Reliance Jio has disrupted the Indian telecom industry with its free data offer till March.

"With the investment in Jio and concurrent action spurred in the industry, India can be among the top 10 in broadband access. Data is the oxygen of this digital life and no Indian should have this in scarcity," he added.

Ambani said human race is at the doorstep of fourth industrial revolution of convergence of digital and biological science. "At the foundation of fourth industrial revolution is connectivity and data, the convergence of all the sciences has been brought about."

Ambani said Aadhaar has enabled Reliance Jio to have millions of customers within few months.

Talking about digital payments, he said: "After the Aadhaar, you consider the digital payments system that is fast developing. Earlier, loans and financial resources were only available to a few people at high value. Now, I see that changing on the basis of technology. Now based on data, you can get a loan on your mobile phone."

"We are at the doorsteps of change in adapting technology to change the lives of people."

"In this new world in terms of digitisation it is important to be open. Whatever the world trends may be, we have to make sure we are always open, always connected. The goal of improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people is the opportunity that we have," he added.

Talking about digitisation, Ambani said: "We have opportunity to adapt artificial intelligence, natural language processing, drones in terms of our logistics. Opportunities are immense. Now we have infrastructure to do it in our own market and make India one of the biggest software markets"of the world."

Counselling a five-point tip-sheet for budding entrepreneurs and potential start-up founders, Ambani said it is essential to find a passion for solving a problem without focusing primarily on financial returns.

"As an entrepreneur, you find a solution to the problem you are passionate about. It is not solving problems but first finding problems and then solving it. Financial results are actually a by-product. Failures are normal. Learn from them.

"Two non-negotiables for me is treat investors' money even more carefully than your own money. You cannot do anything without the right team, align it passionately to your own mission. An entrepreneur is always optimist," he added.

10847 - Do you know the Indian government is sharing your Aadhaar card information with Reliance Industries IB Times

Find a list of all companies with access to Aadhaar information.

February 16, 2017 14:54 IST

RIL's chairman and managing director Mukesh AmbaniScreenshot from Jio Digital Life YouTube Video

During the Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2017 on Wednesday Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said the company's newly-launched telecom venture Reliance Jio has been able to acquire a million customers a day because of Aadhaar.

They have crossed 100 million customer base since it launched in September 2016. 

"When we started Jio we set a target of 100 million customers in shortest time. Even we didn't imagine we will do it in months. Aadhaar enabled us to acquire a million customers a day, which is unheard of in the industry," Ambani said.

However, the data sharing between the Central government and Reliance-Jio Private Limited has been contested in the Kerala High Court in December.

Jio sim can be activated within hours after the sim cards are authenticated with Aadhaar numbers. The company doesn't mention for how long the information would be retained.
The Kerala High Court had sent notices to the Central government, chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and Reliance-Jio Private Limited on a public interest writ petition filed by  Sunil TG, general secretary of Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress, according to the Hindu. 
According to the petition, as per the Aadhaar Act, all data collected by Aadhaar authority is meant to be protected in a permanent locking manner and can only be accessed by biometric authentication. 

However, Reliance Jio Private Limited is not the only company to use the eKYC process. Airtel and Vodafone are also listed as eKYC User Agency under UIDAI, allowing them to validate individual customer using biometrics and Aadhaar details. The process is believed to be faster, foolproof and will help avoid the misuse of sim cards. 

Here's a list of all eKYC User Agencies under UIDAI. However, the permission granted by the UIDAI and the Centre is in violation of the Adhaar (Target Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, benefits and Services) Act, 2016. 

The petitioner had sought a directive to the Cabinet Secretary and chairman of the UIDAI to show cause the authorising department for use of Aadhaar information by private companies. The petition also sought cancellation of permission given to Reliance-Jio Private Limited for authentication of data using Aadhaar.

10846 - UIDAI CEO: We’ll ask SC to test Aadhaar Act on standard of privacy as a fundamental right - Medianama


By Nikhil Pahwa ( @nixxin , +NikhilPahwa ) on February 16, 2017

Rajesh Jain (Founder, Netcore) and Ajay Bhushan Pandey (CEO UIDAI)

“I would urge all of you, please read the Aadhaar act and the regulations,” UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said at the India Digital Summit last week, adding “What the underlying theme is that we have presumed that privacy is…whether privacy is a fundamental right or not is a question which will be answered by the Supreme Court, finally.” 

Pandey was responding to a question from MediaNama, which pointed out the Union of India’s statement in the Supreme Court that ‘Violation of privacy doesn’t mean anything because privacy is not a guaranteed right’, and asked about privacy protections in the law to prevent mass surveillance of citizens.

Pandey added that “We’ve presumed that the privacy is almost like a fundamental right. And if a fundamental right has to be protected, what protection measures should be there? So, whenever the hearing takes place, we are going to take this stand in the Supreme Court, saying that whether the privacy is a fundamental right or not doesn’t concern only Aadhaar, it concerns many other aspects. But so far as Aadhaar is concerned, please test the Aadhaar act on that standard, saying that presume that Privacy is a fundamental right, and whether whatever Aadhaar is doing meets that fundamental right criteria or not. And we’re very sure.”

“Now the Aadhaar act has been passed, it is almost one year, and the way we’re doing it, all other apprehensions that government will become big brother, government will aggregate big data and all kinds of things, data will be misused, private companies will misuse it, all these things, you know all these things today, you know I wouldn’t say there are no complaints, but genuinely there are no specific instances”, and “Nor have such complaints have been brought to the notice of the court.”

Please note that Renuka Sane (visiting fellow at the IDFC Institute, Mumbai) and Vrinda Bhandari (Advocate at the Delhi High Court) had detailed out earlier issues related to privacy in the Aadhaar Act, saying that the Aadhaar Act and the IT Act are “important failures in enshrining privacy.” Read their detailed analysis here. Importantly, they also point out that there is a possibility of a conflict of Internet “since it may be in UIDAI’s interest to cover up breaches of privacy. Without the UIDAI’s proactive action, an individual Aadhaar number holder is left without remedy.”*

The other question we asked Pandey was about the failure rate, and “what recourse do people who have been denied their benefits, have? This concern about fingerprints was also raised by the parliamentary standing committee, under Yashwant Sinha

To this, Pandey said that “Ideally there should be no failure rate. But what is happening is that we’re seeing a failure rate of 92-98%…I mean success rate. What is that 8% or 2%? That is somebody who could not get authenticated.”

“Sometimes people are very innovative,” he added. “They try to see if their fingerprint works or not (for someone elses Aadhaar number). I’m not saying that that is the only reason. 

Sometimes, you know, some of the fingerprints are worn out. In that case, we have the facility that you can authenticate any of the fingerprints. 10 fingerprints or the iris. Using this you can reach almost near 100%. The telecom companies that have started given SIMs (SIM cards for mobile numbers) using this, their success rate is 98%. Whereas, the business correspondents, who go to the villages and actually hand out cash, have a success rate of 92%. They have to improve that.”

Frankly, even 2% and 8% failure rates are significantly large numbers when you consider a population of 1.2 billion on Aadhaar: it is real people who are getting impacted, and someone denied their rights – rations are critical for many – shouldn’t be seen as just a percentage point. That is one of the problems with the proponents of Aadhaar (and digital payments): a lack of empathy, and thinking of technology as the be-all and end-all of India’s problems. Do read: Technology has never been this politial in India

10845 - Aadhaar Artiles Dated 16th Feb 2017



The Wire
The court was responding to a petition from a Channapatna-based tailor who had raised concerns over the Centre's decision to make Aadhaar ...






Financial Express
UIDAI noticed that these websites and mobile application downloadable through Google Play Store were providing unauthorized Aadhaar related ...






The Hindu
The Aadhaar enrolment in Karnataka reached a milestone on Wednesday as it crossed the six-crore mark, after over six-and-a-half years after the ...






Zee News
New Delhi: The government has not taken any decision on making Aadhaar mandatory for registration of patients at All India Institute of Medical ...






Hindu Business Line
Union Bank of India has introduced an 'Aadhaar van' for instant enrolment of Aadhaar card services and seeding/linking of Aadhaar number to bank ...






Governance Now (blog)
Ever since the unique identity number, or Aadhaar, was introduced in India, it has carefully avoided spelling out its status – whether it is mandatory or ...






The Hindu
The sample mark sheets with Aadhaar number that the Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, has introduced.- Photo: M.






MediaNama.com
“I would urge all of you, please read the Aadhaar act and the regulations,” UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said at the India Digital Summit last week ...






International Business Times, India Edition
Jio sim can be activated within hours after the sim cards are authenticated with Aadhaar numbers. The company doesn't mention for how long the ...



Hindustan Times
Aadhaar-based e-KYC facility would allow individuals or entities wanting to apply for PAN to verify details such as date of birth or address by way of ...



The New Indian Express
The verification process that begun on December 5 to ensure mobile numbers and respective Aadhaar identities of family members are seeded into ...






Brighter Kashmir
“It's ironic the department has the audacity to talk about technological innovations and integrating their system with the Aadhaar rolls while it continues ...






Kashmir Life
He also blamed the Govt for making the Aadhar mandatory for the consumers to get the ration, while as 50 percent population are without Aadhaar ...



Livemint
Payism facilitates mobile recharges, domestic remittances, bill payments, Aadhaar-based transactions, e-KYC bank account openings under one roof.






Livemint
Aadhaar, which provides a unique 12-digit identification to 1.1 billion Indians today, forms the bulwark of a digital economy and is unparalleled ...






Daily Mail
'Later, we linked Aadhaar number with the banks and the old age is now directly transferred to the bank account of the benefactor. It can only be ...






Zee Business
Aadhaar-based eKYC facility would allow individuals or entities wanting to apply for PAN to verify details such as date of birth or address by way of ...






Financial Express
The phone will be used to take a picture of the applicant, and the e-KYC process will be done through Aadhaar authentication using biometrics, and ...






India.com
This year the aspirants are required to use of Aadhaar for the applicants of NEET- 2017 will result in accuracy of the applicants' details. This will also ...






Ahmedabad Mirror
All her documents her bank, passport, Aadhaar, PAN card have her old surname.We are completely clueless as to how to go about with the name ...






India.com
Ambani said Aadhaar has enabled Reliance Jio to have millions of customers within few months. Talking about digital payments, he said: “After the ...






Web India 123
To facilitate enhanced services, furnishing of Aadhaar has now been made mandatory for members and pensioners of the Employee's Pension ...