12843 - Aadhaar Articles dated 3rd February 2018

	UIDAI Preparing Aadhaar App for iOS findBIOMETRICS “Called 'mAadhaar', the mobile app essentially acts as a virtual Aadhaar ID card, containing standard biographic information.” The Unique Identification Authority of India is preparing to launch an iOS version of the app for Aadhaar, India's national biometric ID program. UIDAI Preparing Aadhaar App for ... Aadhaar data is 'fully secure': Prasad in RS - The Tribune UIDAI's RTI reply 'unclear' on identification, authentication - Times of India SP member accuses Minister of misleading Rajya Sabha - Daijiworld.com
	The Spurious Claims of the Union Government on Aadhaar Debunked in Court NewsClick On January 30, day 5 of the hearings on Aadhaar, Advocate Shyam Divan explained to the Court the process of data aggregation, and how it is unavoidable under Aadhaar. The Union of India subsequently filed an affidavit in which several claims were made. On day 6 of the hearings, February 1, the ...
	Aadhaar Glitch: Another Woman Dies of Hunger in Jharkhand After Being Denied Ration, Say ... The Wire New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman died in Pakur district in Jharkhand on January 23, after being denied ration for four months under the public distribution system (PDS) due to the failure of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication, according to the Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand. The death of Lukhi ...
	Budget 2018: UIDAI gets Rs 13.75 billion in FY19 for Aadhaar upgrade Business Standard Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI has been allocated nearly 15 per cent more funds at Rs 13.75 billion (Rs 1,375 crore) for 2018-19, which are expected to be ... Yesterday, while presenting the Union Budget 2018-19, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said that Aadhaar has eased the delivery of many public ...
	Yet another Aadhaar-linked death? Denied rations for 4 months, Jharkhand woman dies of hunger Scroll.in Activists in Jharkhand have reported another starvation death they suspect is linked to glitches in the Aadhaar-based Public Distribution System. Lukhi Murmu, a 30-year-old woman from Dhawadangal village in Pakur district, reportedly died of under-nutrition and exhaustion on January 23. According to ...
	Aadhaar not mandatory for bail says Chhattisgarh HC, modifies its earlier order The Indian Jurist (press release) (blog) The Chhattisgarh High Court has modified its earlier order in January which made Aadhaar card mandatory for getting bail and now the court has said that surety can submit any document of identification like voter ID, PAN card and passport. Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra who had earlier passed ...
	Enrolment for Aadhaar begins at post offices The Tribune Officials at the post office said if Sewa Kendras in rural areas are closed, residents would find it easy to get their Aadhaar cards made in rural areas. Post offices are already updating Aadhaar information, they said. Aadhaar enrolment at post offices has been done earlier also, but it was done by external ...
	Gurugram's 1st digital post office to double as Aadhaar-cum-passport centre Times of India Gurugram's 1st digital post office to double as Aadhaar-cum-passport centre ... The post office will provide additional services, specifically catering to the needs of senior citizens and the differently-abled, including internet banking, Western money transfer, Aadhaar enrollment and passport services.
	'Judges not bound by petitioner's feelings' Economic Times The highly polarised arguments — petitioners' contention that Aadhaar would be a tool in government's hand to track every activity of citizens in gross violation of the fundamental right to privacy, as against the Centre's stand that UID was the greatest enabler to empower citizens — saw a judge taking ...
	ICICI Bank invests in fintech startup working on technology enabling Aadhaar biometric-based ... Plunge Daily The startup helps merchants accept digital payments through Aadhar biometrics – with the objective of promoting Aadhaar-based payments. The bank is said to invest Rs. 99 lakh in return for 9.9% stake in the company. Tapits Technologies was incorporated in April 2016 and had revenues of less than a ... ICICI Bank to pick up minority stake in biometric payment startup Tapits - VCCircle
	RRB Loco Pilot and Technician 2018 Application Process Started; Aadhaar Required AglaSem (press release) (blog) Application form for RRB loco pilot and technician post are available at the official regional website of the boards. The fee amount can be submitted online, or via SBI and post office challan. By. Arunima Sharma. -. February 3, 2018. 19 ...
	One crore people now digitally literate: Ravi Shankar Prasad Moneycontrol.com Prasad said currently 2,892 active CSCs are functioning on Assam, imparting services in Aadhaar Card, PAN Card, insurance services along with a host of other areas involving digital expertise. PTI @moneycontrolcom. With one crore villagers being made digitally literate across the country, Union ...
	Modicare will need up to Rs12,000 crore for implementation, says JP Nadda Livemint Although NHPS will be Aadhaar-linked, even in the absence of an Aadhaar card, a patient will not be denied treatment, said NITI Aayog's Kumar. The scheme will see states interlinked, which means a patient residing in one state will be able to avail treatment in another, he added. First Published: Sat ... 'Modicare' to cost Rs 12k crore annually, Oct 2 rollout likely - Millennium Post Proposed health insurance scheme to cost Rs 10000-12000 crore - THE WEEK Health scheme launch set for Aug 15 or Oct 2 - The Tribune
	Increase Diversity, Participation And Transparency In Consultation Process: Academicians And ... Live Law The Committee, they suggest, should examine Aadhaar, asserting, “We support the use of digital technologies for public benefit. However, they should not be privileged over fundamental rights. Any digital identity scheme should be framed around the protection of individual rights through a data ...
	ICICI Bank all set to invest in payments startup Tapits BFSI Post Magazine | Elets Private lender ICICI Bank is planning to invest in biometric payments startup Tapits Technologies. The bank is reportedly investing Rs 99 lakh for acquiring less than 10 per cent holding in the startup company. Tapits Technologies is an early stage startup that accepts digital payments via Aadhaar ...
	Nadda terms health protection scheme as NaMocare Business Standard The scheme will be Aadhaar-linked but those not having Aadhaar card will not be denied eligibility. The sources said the scheme will go a long way in reducing the urban-rural divide and in galvanising the healthcare system. The Budget has also allocated Rs 1,200 crore towards Health and Wellness ...
	Group seeks changes in data protection framework The Indian Express The group includes lawyers and public policy experts who have been part of various projects like the Save the Internet movement that had lobbied for net neutrality in 2015 and are representing the petition against Aadhaar in the Supreme Court. The regulators, it says, should have “binding rule making ...
	Union budget shows "no concern" for hunger, malnutrition, rural distress, reduces allocation for ... COUNTERVIEW While the budget for the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is up from Rs 15,245 crore to Rs 16,334 crore, RFC says, it includes "an allocation of over Rs 300 crores as 'management costs for aadhaar enrolment',", underlining, "There are a number of ethical concerns with the coerced ...
	The world's biggest food fraud The Hindu And whatever the dish may be, ranging from karuveppilai podi to Coquilles Saint-Jacques, even before we so much as look at it, we react with whoops and hoots like we are being told we no longer need to link Aadhaar to our PAN. That's how Machiavellian this whole scam is; the minute a grandmother ...
	Post-budget 2018 Reaction Mr. Gagan Rai, Managing Director & CEO, NSDL e-Governance ... Technuter (blog) This is a budget for the masses due to several reasons. Firstly, 10 crore families will receive health insurance cover. Secondly, thrust on education by teachers' training on a mass scale. Thirdly, agriculture has been encouraged and focus would be given to double farmer income by 2022. We also ...
	Consolidation phase for economy; MSME to lead: Arun Jaitley Economic Times Economic Affairs Secretary S C Garg, lot of them talk about 6-7 crore fundamental enterprises in the country, if they get their online ID from Aadhaar as an enterprise ID that will also facilitate their process towards formalisation. "It will also facilitate their ease of doing business. With one single enterprise ...
	Anila Bhagya: Process begins to issue gas cylinders The Hindu Mr. Jayappa said the beneficiaries should take the letter to the jurisdictional gram panchayat where they have to submit their Aadhaar card, ration card and caste certificate. The panchayat personnel will feed the details provided by the beneficiaries in the online registration system. The Food and Civil ...
	Reasonable procedural pricing key for private participation in NHPS: Apollo Hospitals MD Suneeta ... Moneycontrol.com I think with Aadhaar and Digital India - the ability is tremendous to ensure that the scheme benefits people who really deserve. What kind of role is private players like Apollo will hope to play in the programme and what are some sticky things in partnering with the government? It's an opportunity to work ...
	Raging against irrelevance India Today In Meerut, we are introduced to a gau rakshak and his chain-wielding gang; in Jharkand, to Prasad, a multi-tasking superhero sarkari fixer who runs a hole-in-the-wall all-in-one office, 'a photo studio, news bureau, Pragya Kendra and Aadhaar centre'. There's the model who earns his living selling chow ...