14350 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 30 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 30 December 2019

PAN-Aadhaar cards linking: What happens if you miss the deadline
Livemint
You can go to the income tax department's e-filing portal to complete the interlinking process and also to check the status of your PAN-Aadhaar linking.

Govt To Restart Aadhaar Service Centres In 700 Districts By 2020
Inc42 Media
The decision of restarting Aadhaar services comes after it was stopped in 2017. CSCs will be similar to Aadhaar Seva Kendra in terms of highest ...

Pan-Aadhaar linking final deadline is December 31: Know how to link PAN card with Aadhaar card ...
Jagran Josh
Aadhaar-Pan linking: The final deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar is December 31, 2019. This was announced by the Income Tax Department on ...

PAN Card, Aadhaar Card Linking Deadline Is Tomorrow: How to Check Status, Link Aadhaar-PAN ...
NDTV
Wondering how to link PAN card with Aadhaar card, it is quite simple and requires just a few steps. Similarly, it is also easy to check the status of ...

Do I need to link my Aadhaar and PAN card as an NRI? All your questions answered
Gulf News
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BREAKING: Aadhaar-PAN linking deadline extended
India TV
BREAKING NEWS: CBDT extends Aadhaar-PAN linking deadline to March, 2020 from December 31, 2019. India TV Business Desk New Delhi ...

Maharashtra Police Say Maoists Using Fake Aadhaar Cards, Masquerading as Farmers
The Wire
To support their claim, they submitted the Aadhaar cards of Sukhram and Pusali. In response, the Gadchiroli police have stated that Maoists have ...

Man jumps in front of Defence minister Rajnath Singh's convoy, says wanted to get name changed ...
Hindustan Times
“He claims that he wanted to get his name on his Aadhaar card changed. He is being jointly interrogated by police and intelligence officials,” Mittal ...

Aadhaar-PAN linking deadline extended again. Check new date here
Times Now
New Delhi: The deadline to link the permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar was extended till March 2020 by the Central Board of Direct ...

Bengaluru: HC takes Aadhaar as proof, orders husband to pay alimony
Daijiworld.com
Bengaluru: HC takes Aadhaar as proof, orders husband to pay alimony ... mentioned as husband in Aadhaar card, ration card, and birth certificate.

Syntizen, Tech5 set up biometric face liveness detection for transport department in India
Biometric Update
Syntizen develops other digital identification solutions including ABAS (Aadhaar-based Attendance System), edo Suite (Aadhaar masking solution), ...

Topsy tuvy reform in cashless payments and the power sector
Economic Times (blog)
The reality is that UPI is a great innovation made possible by Aadhaar and the India Stack (a collection of Application Programming Interfaces for ...

Top 5 Current Affairs: 30 December 2019
Jagran Josh
The final deadline for linking the pan card with the aadhaar card is December 31. Those who haven't yet linked their pan with aadhaar can check how ...

10 mn cows to be inseminated, tagged, tracked by March 2020
Hindustan Times
The government is planning to introduce an Aadhaar-like identification among the country's cattle population in a project to improve breeds and ...

Start-up comes up with digital penalty charger
The Hindu
The QR Code scanner within the device lets the officials scan the QR code from the Aadhaar card of the offender to access the offender's identity.

Biometric Punch: Real-Time Attendance in Janata Bhawan
The Sentinel Assam
... M Angamuthu said, “A decision has been taken to introduce Aebas (Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System) in the State Secretariat.

Digital 2020: The march towards an intelligent enterprise
Financial Express
... for 100 smart cities; launching the world's most extensive biometric identity programme, popularly known as Aadhaar; reforming India's tax structures ...

NEET PG 2020: NBE releases details about Admit Card
Education Medical Dialogues
In case, the candidate reports to the test centre with an e-Aadhaar card with Aadhaar number printed on it as proof of identity, the e-Aadhaar card ...

In Yadgir, woman gives birth in auto after PHC denies admission
The Hindu
According to sources, Devibai, a native of Mudnal Dodda Tanda, was allegedly denied admission at the PHC for not producing Aadhaar card and ...

Stop NPR, hold consultations with people: Forum urges Edappadi
The Hindu
The State Platform for Common School System has urged the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to stop the process of the National Population Register and ...

Protest add to winter sting
Free Press Journal
Some are asking why the government does not strengthen Aadhaar as it already has our digital biometric details. If our retina scan and finger prints do ...

Mini Job Mela at Collectorate today in Kakinada
The Hans India
Kakinada: A mini-job-mela will be conducted at Kaushal Godavari and Vikasa near the Collectarate here on Monday. Vikasa Project Director K ...

NPR designed to misuse and abuse: Kamal Nath
Economic Times
The third issue was loans with wrong Aadhaar numbers and those who have died. About six lakh farmers are in these categories. For those with ...

This Mumbai man created fake FB profiles of women and offered nude webcam sessions for Rs 1000
Free Press Journal
Police said with the help of this bank account number, Singh found an Aadhaar card linked to it, and a mobile number linked to the document. With the ...

Bihar Police Constable Admit Card 2020: CSBC admit card download
Primetime
Link your PAN card to the Aadhaar card before 31 December. Last Friday, the Income Tax Department has sent a reminder that the last date for linking ...

Maharashtra: Valuables, cash stolen in three break-ins
Times of India
NASHIK: Cash and other articles worth over Rs 10 lakh were stolen on Saturday in three house break-ins registered with the Nashik Road, Deolali ...

Loving freely, right to privacy, NOTA, Ram Mandir — 10 historic SC judgments of the decade
ThePrint
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Aadhaar in September 2018. In a majority 4-1 judgment, a constitution bench, headed by then ...

In December, here is what the government did
Hindustan Times
The big decision: The ministry decided to create a database of all farmers in the country, based on Aadhaar, for a unified and integrated IT-based

60 Yr Old Man Robbed Of Rs 13 Lakh Via Paytm KYC Fraud: This Is How Scamsters Tricked Him
Trak.in (blog)
Every week, we report to you new stories of online fraud, each one more shocking than the rest. In recent history, people have been scammed under ...

NRC in Assam: Digital mode to track excluded migrants
Outlook India
... able to avail any kind of government identity documents, including the electors photo identity card (EPIC), passports, driving license, Aadhaar card, ...

Indian Air Force AFCAT 2020 application process to be closed today
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) will close the application process for Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) on its official website today i.e. ...

14349 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 29 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 29 December 2019

CSCs to open 700 new centres for Aadhaar services
Economic Times
After the government administered digital kiosks in far flung areas of the country were stopped from providing Aadhaar enrolment and updation

Linking PAN, Aadhaar not mandatory for NRIs
Khaleej Times
Indian expats in the UAE are advised to ideally link their Aadhaar and Permanent Account Number (PAN) by December 31, 2019, but the process isn't ...

Maoists misusing Aadhaar to prove innocence: Gadchiroli police
Times of India
In support of their claims, the villagers have produced Aadhaar cards of the duo who were killed and others who have been untraceable since the ...

Asking For Biometrics For NPR When Census And Aadhaar Already Exist Is Against My Privacy
ED Times (satire) (blog)
The hue and cry over the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act weren't over yet when the government planned to add ...

India: Top 5 judgements of the Supreme Court in 2019
Gulf News
Aadhaar Judgement: The Supreme Court, on November 13, while referring the case on the Finance Act 2017 being passed as Money Bill to a larger ...

10 ways your personal finance changed in 2019
Times Now
From the return of Aadhaar based e-KYC to income tax sops and repo rate-linked loans, 2019 was a financially vital year. Before you step into the new ...

Amul lodges extortion complaint in UP over slanderous video
India Today
A public notice has been issued here asking for linking an Indian resident's PAN with his/her Aadhaar card before December 31, Gulf News reported ...

Now, workers can generate UAN from provident fund portal directly
The Tribune
To generate your UAN, you need your Aadhaar number and must have your mobile number registered in Aadhaar database. Without this, UAN cannot ...

Post Office will present SMS alert to their account holders – Now post workplace account holders ...
OBN
Post Office will present SMS alert to their account holders – Now post workplace account holders may also get this facility, cellular and Aadhaar ...

All you need to know about National Population Register and the NRC link
Hindustan Times
Having Aadhaar number would help to provide one's biometric data. Those, who don't have Aadhaar, can enrol for the 12 digit unique number and ...

Social Media Corner 29th December 2019
Narendra Modi (press release) (blog)
Aadhaar crosses 125 crore mark and it has been used 37000 crore times since inception!https://t.co/z8EvoOBZER#IndiaOnTheRise ...

Engineer whose US passport was impounded gets bail
Times of India
Though a citizen of the USA, FRRO accused him of illegally obtaining voter, Aadhaar and pan card in India, and termed it as overstaying. He was also ...

Non-citizens? Meet a journalist, a caterer and bonded labourers without papers
The New Indian Express
They do, however, possess Aadhaar, ration and voter ID cards. Their hope is that their neighbours and relatives might be able to testify for them, if they ...

Patna duo return Rs 50000, bag & ATM card with PIN lost by two in auto and temple
Times of India
“But thanks to the auto driver, Bhagat Singh, who sent me a WhatsApp message after he failed to contact my number mentioned on my Aadhaar Card ...

No MDR on payment through RuPay, Bhim UPI from Jan 1
Deccan Herald
Payments made through indigenously developed digital gateways such as RuPay Debit card, UPI QR code, BHIM UPI and Aadhaar Pay will BE ...

CPI (M)'s Raghuvulu scoffs at Jagan's 3-capitals idea
The Hindu
“Instead of a National Population Register and National Register of Citizens, the NDA Government should treat Aadhaar as a proof of citizenship,” Mr.

Mumbai: Gangster Ejaz Lakdawala's daughter Soniya Shaikh arrested
Free Press Journal
Last year, she got an Indian passport from Mumbai by submitting fake documents like PAN card, AADHAAR card, bank account details among others.

'AIPC doesn't have any official spokesperson': Congress disowns RJ Ria after her TV debate gaffe
Free Press Journal
She couldn't explain how NPR would disturb minorities and was flabbergasted when asked who came up with Aadhaar. Her answers left fellow ...

& # 039; One Nation – One Ration Card & # 039 ;: Don't grow to be a necklace!
OBN
Under this, ration playing cards are being linked to Aadhaar playing cards. According to the official info of the Food Ministry, until final yr 19 crore out of ...

Amid Confusion Over CAA, NRC, And NPR, Union Minister Adds One More Condition To Stay In ...
India Times
There is so much confusion that not many people, including those with all kinds of documents like voters ID, Passport and Aadhaar know exactly who ...

Prepare beneficiaries list for house sites: CCLA Neerab Kumar
The Hans India
Kakinada: Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) Neerab Kumar directed the officials concerned to prepare list of beneficiaries for ...

Protesters confident of defeating CAA-NRC
Deccan Herald
“The act is so vague that it will create a room for corruption — a situation compounded by the fact that voter IDs, Aadhaar and driving licence are not ...

TMC organises sit-ins across Bengal in protest against CAA
Millennium Post
Coming down heavily on the BJP, Hakim said the BJP leadership has said that EPIC cards and Aadhaar cards are not enough to prove a person's ...

How to evade the police state while out at a protest
Deccan Chronicle
Hyderabad: Anti-face make-up, use of colour, covering one's face with a funky hairstyle: these are some techniques by young protesters to outwit ...

Who is Andrea D'Souza aka 'Ria Revealed', the panelist in viral Times Now clip embarrassing herself
OpIndia
... moniker Ria D'Souza, who claims to be a political analyst, was left googling to figure out basic questions about the chronology of Aadhaar and NPR.

2019 an year of judgements – Supreme Court's five landmark rulings
Afternoon Voice
The Supreme Court said that linking social media accounts with Aadhaar Card would be a breach of privacy policies, Facebook readily agrees.

There'll be 'social vetting' of NPR entries, UPA-2 minister told LS
Times of India
“....the Local Register of Usual Residents (LRUR) along with aadhaar number would be published in the local areas for inviting objections and claims.

Narasaraopet MLA's twin programmes to air public grievances
The New Indian Express
While interacting the people he received many representations for housing sites, Aadhaar cards, Chief Minister Relief Fund (CMRF) sanctions, ...

Patiala: Stern rules keep the homeless away
Times of India
They can show Aadhaar card or other identity proof. However, if someone from other district or anyone who looks a genuine person and does not have ...

Out-of-Box Policy Ideas for 2020
The New Indian Express
Out-of-Box Policy Ideas for 2020. Shankkar Aiyar, author of Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India's 12 Digit Revolution, and Accidental India .

'NRC to be smooth, no Indian to be deprived of citizenship'
The Rahnuma Daily (press release)
“People got their Aadhaar very easily. I can assure whenever NRC happens, it will be so smooth and not a single Indian citizen will be deprived of ...

14348 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 28 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 28 December 2019

Aadhaar-PAN linking deadline is 31 December: How to check your status
Livemint
The Income Tax department on Friday sent out a reminder saying the last date for linking PAN Card and Aadhaar is 31 December and that those PAN ...

With Over 125 Cr Enrolments, Aadhaar Reaches To Every Nook And Corner
Inc42 Media
Most of the Aadhaar-based authentication requests to UIDAI comes from linking bank accounts, permanent account number (PAN), mobile number ...

Aadhaar is now compulsory for this pension scheme for senior citizens
Hindustan Times
The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for subscribers of the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY), a pension scheme for senior ...

Data | How many births get registered, what percentage of the population have Aadhaar, and more
The Hindu
Documents are "likely to include voter cards, passports, Aadhaar birth certificates, school leaving certificates, etc." An analysis of the coverage levels of ...

Use Aadhaar database to build population register: Govindacharya tells govt
Business Standard
The government should consider using the Aadhaar database to build a population register, K N Govindacharya, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak ...

'No detention centres as long as I'm alive'
Millennium Post
Banerjee slammed the Centre on the issue of Aadhaar saying that until a few years ago, the government made linking everything, from telephones to ...

Student to homemaker join anti-NRC agitation
Telegraph India
First, we stood in queues to get Aadhaar cards done, then we stood in one more queue to get the Aadhaar card synced with our bank accounts and ...

Man booked for cheating HDFC Bank of ₹1.27 lakh
The Hindu
A police officer said, “The Aadhaar and PAN cards were found to be forged as the original cards had the picture of another man. When a bank official ...

Ask 19 questions on CAA-NPR-NRIC when BJP workers come home
National Herald
In India the Aadhaar projects is 11 years old, PAN card has been there for 25 years and the Indian Passport for the past 70 years. If there are still ...

Cong States set to block NPR
Daily Pioneer
These include last place of residence, passport number, Aadhaar ID, Voter ID card number, driving licence number and mobile phone number.

No MDR charges applicable on payment via RuPay, UPI from 1 January: Sitharaman
Livemint
Low cost digital payment modes will include options such as BHIM UPI, UPI QR Code, Aadhaar Pay, Debit Cards, NEFT, RTGS, among others.

Top 5 judgements of the Supreme Court in 2019
The Weekend Leader
The Centre had relied on the Aadhaar judgment to strengthen its case and this led the top court examining the judgment in connection with the ...

'One nation, one ration card' to be implemented in 12 states from January 15
DNA India
... (FPS) at the subsidised using the same ration card, after a biometric/AADHAAR authentication on the earlier mentioned electronic PoS machines.

Protests against CAA, NRC remain peaceful
Millennium Post
A student alleged that he was beaten up by the police after they checked his Aadhaar card. "Why beat me up after checking my Aadhaar. Did they do it ...

Tripura Gramin Bank posts profit 19 years in a row
Outlook India
The bank, which covered over 75 per cent of Tripura''s population, mostly in the rural and interior areas, also has Aadhaar-enabled 225 micro ATMs ...

'Cong sent her to make Rahul look smart': Twitter trolls Cong's RJ Ria for failing to answer basic ...
Yahoo India News
D'Souza, who claims to be a political analyst, was left googling to figure out basic questions about the chronology of Aadhaar and NPR. She claimed ...

Elderly struggle to get Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation smartcards
Times of India
At present, senior citizens need to show their Aadhaar or driving licence for concession on tickets. From January 1, smartcards will be mandatory.

These rules will change in New Year, Know what will change
News Track English
PAN to Aadhaar - Link your PAN to Aadhaar, 31 December is the last date. If this is not linked, then the PAN card will be inoperative, apart from this ...

Credit growth muted in Sep'19, gross NPA may rise by Sep'20
WeForNews (satire) (press release) (blog)
Over the years, the Aadhaar card has evolved as a primary identification document for a number of purposes in India. The Aadhaar-based ...

Kids of nomadic tribes beg for 6 hours a day: Study
Times of India
Eighty-eight percent adult respondents surveyed had PAN cards as well as Aadhaar cards. But a majority of adults and children didn't possess caste ...

How the home ministry during UPA regime fought for implementation of NPR
MyNation
Objection was raised since the UIDAI was processing data for the Aadhaar project. Some claimed this would result in duplication of data.

BJP accuses Rahul Gandhi of lying to people on NPR
APN News
... is a right step to help the poor. Mr Javadekar added that NPR and Aadhaar combination brings in transparency and identifies beneficiaries. Loading.

One Nation One Ration Card in 12 states
Clipper28 (satire) (press release) (blog)
The beneficiaries would be able to avail the entitled food grains after bio-metric / Aadhaar authentication on electronic Point of Sale devices.

14347 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 27 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 27 December 2019

PAN-Aadhaar linking: What will happen if PAN is not linked with Aadhaar by December 31?
Economic Times
The deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar is just a few days away, i.e., December 31. According to income tax laws, if your PAN is not linked with Aadhaar ...

Aadhaar crosses 125 crore mark, used 37000 crore times since inception
Livemint
In just about a decade of its implementation in 2010, registrations under the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) Aadhaar project have ...

Aadhaar made mandatory for Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana pension scheme
Livemint
NEW DELHI : The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for subscribers of the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY), a pension ...

When NPR, Aadhaar caused a rift within UPA 8 years ago
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The controversy over National Population Register (NPR) refuses to cease. While opposition parties including Congress are opposing ...

Over 100 Aadhaar cards found abandoned along bank of a lake
The Hindu
Over a 100 Aadhaar cards were found abandoned along the bank of a lake in Hosur. The cards, found by a few locals late Wednesday, were meant to ...

Use Aadhaar data for NPR, Govindacharya urges Amit Shah
Outlook India
Govindacharya has proposed to the government that it use existing IDs like Aadhaar, PAN Card, driving licence, passports, and voter ID for the NPR ...

Why India should shelve NPR, the National Population Register
ThePrint
This government decided it will carry out the NPR, and separately issue biometric identity cards under a new law. Hence, we have the Aadhaar card.

Aadhaar-PAN linking: What will happen if these two are not linked by December 31, here's what ...
ET Now
New Delhi: The deadline for Aadhaar-PAN (permanent account number) linking is December 31, 2019, earlier the deadline to link the two was ...

First made artificial Aadhaar card once again, began doing job in dance club now carrying it out.
OBN
Along with this particular, she got a job when you look at the party club of Kolkata first by using artificial Aadhaar card, then began sex trade again.

What changed your money matters in 2019
Livemint
NEW DELHI : From the return of Aadhaar based e-KYC to income tax sops and PPF tweaks, 2019 was financially much vital. As we step into the New ...

Hemant Soren's tweets win praise from all
Telegraph India
However, from the time of Santoshi's death, it was apparent that mandatory linking of ration cards with Aadhaar proved costly for many poor families in ...

Current Affairs in Short: 27 December 2019
Jagran Josh
Current Affairs in Short: 27 December 2019. The central government has made Aadhaar mandatory for the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana.

Rahul calls Modi liar, BJP retorts Cong set up detention centre
Daily Pioneer
They ask, “if available”, provide Aadhaar number, mobile number, Voter ID number, driving licence number. What is the need for licence number, ...

Won't allow detention centres in Bengal as long as I am alive: Mamata
United News of India
Ms Banerjee slammed the Centre on the issue of Aadhaar, saying, " Until a few years ago the government made us link everything from telephones to ...

“We Have Come to Protest Against CAA in the Name of Dharma”
The Citizen (press release)
“They made us run after Aadhaar and are now torturing us for NRC. Aadhaar could be used as identification of a person, then why do we need to ...

DGGI Chennai unearths GST Fraud involving rupees Rs.900 Cr
taxscan.in (press release)
Also, search at the residential premises of one the accomplice resulted in the seizure of 100s of PAN and Aadhaar, said to have been collected from ...

These vital guidelines are altering from January 1, it is vitally vital so that you can know
OBN
The final date to hyperlink your PAN to Aadhaar is 31 December. If you didn't do that work, then the PAN card will grow to be inoperative, ie monetary ...

DCs told to form career counselling desks for those orphaned due to militancy
Outlook India
For a quick transfer of funds, the DCs were asked to open bank accounts with Aadhaar and conduct district-level screening committee meetings ...

Raj Thackeray To Adopt Sena's Hindutva Politics, Announcement Likely On Jan 23
Republic World
Maintaining that there was a lot of confusion regarding the law, he claimed that the government had deemed Aadhaar as an inadmissible document to ...

Karnataka to pay Rs 300 per quintal above MSP for tur
The New Indian Express
To avail the facility, the growers have to get their Aadhaar card which is linked to their bank account to facilitate the Aadhaar enabled payment.

In-Depth | Understanding the alphabet soup: What is the NPR-NRC-CAA conundrum and how ...
Moneycontrol.com
This data was updated by conducting door-to-door survey, and in 2015, it was seeded with the details of Aadhaar. The digitisation of the updated ...

Slugfest over NPR continues
Millennium Post
In the 2020 version, new features include date and place of birth of parents, last place of residence, Aadhaar number, driving license number, Voter ...

Govt to establish career counselling desks for violence-hit orphans
Rising Kashmir
For quick transfer of funds, DCs were asked to open Bank Accounts with Aadhaar Numbers and conduct District Level Screening Committee (DLSC) ...

Rs 106.14 Cr expended on RD works in Anantnag: Director RDD
5 Dariya News
The ACD also informed the meeting that 83 per cent Aadhaar Seeding has been completed, while as Aadhaar Verification of 103573 accounts has ...

Spurt in KYC fraud in e-wallet in Pune: cyber police
Hindustan Times
To update the KYC information, the man on the call asked the complainant to share details like name, phone number, Aadhaar card, PAN card, among ...

Rahul Gandhi to Lead Citizenship Bill Protest in Guwahati
India West
The form introduced by the Modi government violated the right to privacy as it demanded Aadhaar number, mobile number, voter card and the driving ...

Sensex up 200 pts, SBI 2%, RIL 1%
WeForNews (satire) (press release) (blog)
New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced a milestone of sorts with the total number of Aadhaar cards issued so ...

Delhi shivers at 4.2 deg C, season's coldest
United News of India
New Delhi, Dec 27 (UNI) Now 125 crore residents of the country have Aadhaar. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) announced a new ...

Youngest casualties in UP: Children injured, shot at, at least two are locked up in jail
The Indian Express
The minor's eldest brother, who works in a jeans factory, said his brother's school records and Aadhaar card proves he is a minor. In Muzaffarnagar ...

I was proposing civil disobedience with smile: Arundhati Roy over Ranga-Billa row
indiablooms
... courted a controversy saying, "They will visit your homes, take your name, phone number and ask for documents like Aadhaar and driving licences.

14346 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 26 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 26 December 2019

Aadhaar made mandatory for PMVVY pension scheme
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for subscribers of the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY), a pension ...

Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana: Senior citiznes have to submit proof of Aadhaar number
Times Now
New Delhi: Earlier this week, Finance Ministry on Monday, December 23, 2019, issued a notification saying senior citizens who have invested in ...

Aadhaar Card Issued to Over 125 Crore Indians, Use of 12-Digit Number For Identity Purpose ...
LatestLY
New Delhi, December 26: Over 1.25 crore residents of India now have Aadhaar card, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) announced on ...

Link your PAN to Aadhar by December 31
Nagpur Today
With barely a week to go for linking your permanent account number (PAN) and Aadhaar, taxpayers need to hurry since it is mandatory for filing ...

CAA, NPR and NRC: Confusion and connection explained
India Today
There is a little back story about NPR and Aadhaar. The two were considered rival projects under the UPA government of Manmohan Singh.

Pm Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna Wrong Feeds in Aadhar Card of Many Farmers – UP: 57 lakh ...
OBN
Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, a lot of Aadhaar card malfunctions have been revealed. A assessment of the federal ...

Transport Dept. opts for face liveness detection solution
The Hindu
According to the release, Syntizen offers a number of tech-driven digital identification products, including Aadhaar-based Attendance System (ABAS), ...

From striking down to 377 to Ayodhya Verdict: 5 historic judgements that shook the decade
Free Press Journal
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the government's Aadhaar scheme as pro-poor and inclusionary, but scrapped provisions of ...

Refusal to try at Mohalla Clinic when there is no Aadhar Card – Delhi: Refusal to try at Mohalla ...
OBN
When he came truth be told there for the test, he didn't have an Aadhaar card at that moment. The medical practitioner declined to accomplish the test.

Top articles of BusinessLine for 2019
The Hindu BusinessLine
Earlier, this year, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had started re-printing Aadhaar cards on a pilot basis. This move - getting the ...

NPR authorities examining ways to allay NRC fears
Economic Times
The pre-test form also had a column for Aadhaar number which was to be used for verification of biometrics. “We will examine the pre-test survey ...
Odisha: Bangladeshi woman lodges sexual assault complaint; gets arrested for staying illegally
WION
The subsequent investigation revealed that she was a Bangladeshi national and had come to Odisha using a fake Aadhaar card, which had an

13 big tax changes that happened in 2019 and its impact on your personal finances
Economic Times
The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her maiden budget, announced that Aadhaar number can be quoted instead of PAN wherever quoting of ...

Multiple NRC-phobia deaths make admin sit up and take notice
The Statesman
... Bill in both the Houses of Parliament, as their names and other particulars in the EPICs and the Aadhaar Cards were not matching perfectly.

RBI Introduces Prepaid Payment Instrument To Boost Retail Payments
Inc42 Media
This decision by RBI comes as an alternative of the Aadhaar KYC verification, which will also help fintech companies in their customer onboarding ...

DM holds multi-purpose camp, tours villages, talks to people
Daily Pioneer
Similarly, 15 Aadhaar cards were updated and three new Aadhaar cards were made. The social welfare department officials got four beneficiaries to ...

FPJ Edit: Right decision, wrong timing
Free Press Journal
... including date and place of birth of parents, permanent account number, Aadhaar (on voluntary basis), voter ID card, driving license, mobile number, ...

Business highlights
Business Insider India
DEL37 BIZ-PMVVY Aadhaar made mandatory for PMVVY pension scheme New Delhi: The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for subscribers ...

No sale of petrol in bottles in Vizag
The Hindu
Though the idea is good, the managements should consider giving petrol by taking Aadhaar card number or some specific identity proof,” said N.

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14345 - Digital India on Steroids: How Aadhaar Infra Enables the NPR and the NRC - The Wire

24th Dec 2019
Digital India on Steroids: How Aadhaar Infra Enables the NPR and the NRC

The NPR is the 'mother' database for a potential NRC, but it needs verification of biometrics from the UIDAI.

In the case of Aadhaar, private registrars under UIDAI had access to data while state governments did not. Photo: Reuters

Srinivas Kodali

GOVERNMENTPOLITICSRIGHTSTECH

24/DEC/2019

Protests have broken out across the country over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). While there is a more recent history to why the NRC was updated over the last four years in Assam, there is a complicated past of war and migration has fuelled the BJP’s call for it all over the country.

But to know the story of the National Population Register, how Aadhaar infrastructure underpins it, and how it relates to the National Register of Indian Citizens, we need to first start with Kargil.

The Pakistan Army’s intrusion into Indian territory took the government by surprise. Of particular concern was infiltration by Pakistanis who came dressed up in civilian clothes. A ‘Kargil review’ committee was appointed by the-then Vajpayee government to suggest possible solutions, one of which was to issue national ID cards to people who live in border areas and then scale that up to the whole country.

Eventually, there were proposals for a ‘Multi Purpose National Identity Cards’ (MNIC) project and a ‘National Population Register’ (NPR), both instituted under provisions of the Citizenship Act of 1955.

The MNIC proposal was presented to all the chief ministers in a conference on internal security on 17th November 2001 and was accepted.

A 2002 parliamentary question about the identity cards in Lok Sabha had the following answer from the then Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Ch. Vidyasagar Rao:

“The issue of MNICs would involve creation of an identification system for more than one billion citizens, streamlining the existing machinery for the registration of birth and deaths at the grass root level and choices of institutional as well as technological options for the creation of an integrated data base of personal identities capable of being continuously updated. The Government would finalise its decision only after an in-depth examination of all relevant issues and after making necessary preparations, including the legal backing to the scheme.”

This was the birth of Aadhaar if you ask the current BJP, which stakes claim to it as their own project proposed under Vajpayee after the Kargil war.

Indeed, the Multi Purpose National Identity Card was not much different from Aadhaar. It was supposed to be a smart card which would store the fingerprints of individuals and other data in the card. The card was based on the ‘Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application’ (SCOSTA) standard developed by National Informatics Center for blocking illegal driver licences using a chip-card based on equivalent ISO standards.

Also read: Why the Aadhaar Act’s Future Isn’t Set in Stone Yet

While the technical standards where being formulated the Office of the Registrar General of India (RGI), under home ministry started working out the modalities to build this database. In 2003, much before Aadhaar was announced, the RGI decided to use fingerprints of individuals as part of the data collection required for MNIC and the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC).

Importantly, a RGI newsletter from 2003 does not distinguish between the MNIC and NRIC, referring to them as vital cogs of the same system.

The newsletter also notes the framing of ‘The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003’. These rules call for the creation of a ‘population register’ that would feed into the national ID card system (MNIC) and the National Register of Indian Citizens.

Another RGI newsletter from that time the following also points out:

“The Government has decided to conduct a pilot for the MNIC Project in selected areas of 13 districts in thirteen states/union territories in the country. The pilot aims at providing the following benefits:

a) A credible individual identification system

b) Speedy and efficient transactions between the individual and the service provider (government and non-government)

c) User friendly interface between the citizen and the government

d) Improvement in services to the people in ‘Below Poverty Line’ (BPL) or ‘Above Poverty Line’ (APL) categories

e) Deterrent for future illegal immigration. ” [Emphasis added by The Wire]

While these pilot studies and exercises where being carried out, India was hit by another terrorist attack in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. The terrorists came to India posing as fishermen in a fishing trawler and attacked key places in Mumbai. The Mumbai attacks were a new kind of warfare for India, which opened up coastal waters as threat vector. The incident questioned India’s failures in surveillance & intelligence and the failure of coast guard in stopping illegal entry of people via fishing trawlers.

To respond to these challenges, the UPA government started creating new intelligence databases like NATGRID, started registration and licensing of fishing vessels and created a database for it called ReALCraft. We also increased the number of coastal police stations and the police were tasked to know everyone living in surroundings.

More importantly, that’s when MNIC cards started to be distributed to fishermen.

India eventually issued a gazette notification to start the ‘National Population Register’ (NPR) on March 15, 2010. The idea was to create a database of all ‘usual residents’ and use that to eventually feed into a National Register of Indian Citizens (NIRC).

Aadhaar versus NPR
While the MNIC project was ongoing, its progress was sluggish and after a decade, it became clear that it wasn’t progressing well. This is when, under the Planning Commission and Nandan Nilekani, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was formed and the operating procedures were completely changed. Under UIDAI, ‘smart cards’ became bad and central databases to de-duplicate people became the preferred choice of poison. UIDAI formulated rules for the capture of biometrics and iris scans, which went onto become national standards.

By the time UIDAI standards were formulated, the NPR was already being carried out by the Registrar General of India. The infrastructure for NPR at this stage was old and different from Aadhaar, as it was using smart cards. Electronics Corporation of India Limited, which manufactures our voting machines manufactured machine readers to read smart cards for coastal police stations. But NPR was not yet collecting iris scans and was not de-duplicating data — this data was later collected and added again.

By the time UIDAI standards were formulated, the NPR was already being carried out by the Registrar General of India. Representative image. Photo: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal

The NPR database was always the root database though and was built to eventually identify citizens. The problem was that it didn’t have the algorithms to compare and find duplicate fingerprints. The cost of storing fingerprints in multiple databases — UIDAI *and* NPR — along with the security of it was also high.

De-duplication exercises would have been possible only if all the data was in a large single database.

So, the RGI signed an agreement with UIDAI to share biometric data for de-duplication and issuing Aadhaar. In 2016, it was reported that RGI had shared biometrics captured by it of nearly 300 million people with the Aadhaar agency.

MNIC cards were stopped, but the RGI continued to update National Population Register with Census 2011.

The problem started when the differences between NPR and UIDAI became apparent — both were ostensibly designed to build a database that would help the government provide welfare services. But they always had different origins. Nilekani for instance brought in the private sector to implement the UIDAI project at breakneck speed, which created enrolment fraud. The home ministry, naturally, had concerns about private operators handing out Aadhaar numbers without any checks. The UIDAI didn’t care too much about this because Aadhaar was legally allowed to be given to any resident, foreign or Indian.

The MNIC along with NPR, on the other hand, was effectively designed to eventually check citizenship status.

The problems being created from Aadhaar led to a confrontation between the Home Ministry and UIDAI — to the point where Chidambaram as Home Minister wanted greater control for NPR as verification is done for the project.

Committees were created to co-ordinate between NPR & UID. The escalations only stopped after the cabinet committee on UID under Manmohan Singh intervened in January 2012, deciding coastal areas will be covered by NPR and UIDAI will continue to carry out inner states.
Things continued like this until the Supreme Court ordered UIDAI can’t share back the biometrics it collected to anyone. This made things complicated for Registrar General, who asserted the Citizenship Act 1955 gives them the right to collect biometrics (point 8 in MoM). The home ministry ministry sought legal opinion from the attorney general. The RGI updated the National Population Register again in 2015 by going door to door and also collected Aadhaar number of individuals (point 8 in MoM).
It has since then still needed the biometrics to finish the NPR, and recent reports indicate that this deadlock will be broken.

KYR +

The issue of sharing data between entities was always complicated. In the case of Aadhaar, private registrars under UIDAI had access to data while state governments did not.

Also read: Why the CAA Is More Lethal Than a Projected NRC

Under the National Population Register, it was the state government and state census offices carrying out the exercises had access to data. Like the Centre, states also had their own welfare projects and required data on residents of the state. But the data UIDAI was collecting wasn’t enough for states, they needed data specific to their schemes.

In states that had not carried out proper NPR enrolment (inner states), the governments used UIDAI to create ‘State Resident Data Hubs’ to create their own mini Aadhaar and the concept of Know Your Resident Plus (KYR+) was born. This meant states could collect more data like Voter ids on top of basic demographic data (KYC) that UIDAI collected. Often states collected sensitive information like religion and caste details to understand the socio-economic upliftment of various social groups.

Eventually, states started collecting much more data using their own surveys like Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Telangana which first started these special state surveys, did an intensive household survey of the entire state in a single day. A holiday was declared right after formation of Telangana on August 19, 2014, and people were asked to be home with all their identity documents. They were asked to go back to their permanent residences, special buses were arranged and there was a lot of frenzy that was whipped up. If they weren’t in this survey, they may not be eligible for jobs or government benefits. Unlike the Census, which is carried out to know where the population lives, this exercise was done to know where the population is from. Telangana used this data to build a 360 degree profile databases of everyone in the state. During the Supreme Court hearing on Aadhaar, the judges were informed these databases where shut down. Surprisingly the 2018-19 economic survey (Chapter 4, box-5) praises Telangana for creating this secret database which no one from the state heard about. The economic survey recommends Aadhaar be used to link all databases.

The KYR plus data was being shared among various government departments without any consent. A lot of this data was leaking from government portals and UIDAI would ignore them by stating that no data has been leaking from the central database, the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR). This issue extended to the NPR project as well.

The NPR now is going to be carried out using a mobile application like Andhra Pradesh and will be linked to Aadhaar as per latest statements and is going to be part of the Census 2021.

In the end, one can easily say the National Population Register is different from the National Register of Citizens. What then is the relationship between both? In response to a question in the Lok Sabha on April 21,2015, the-then Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary, clearly spelled it out:

“The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of Usual Residents. It would contain citizens as well as non-citizens. The objective of creating a NPR is to net all usual residents of the country at a given point of time. This would serve as the mother database for creating the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) by verifying the citizenship status of each and every resident.”

The government already has so much information about us – it just so happens they are in different databases. The mother database for National Register of Indian Citizens is the National Population Register, which in turn uses data from the Aadhaar database. The Supreme Court judgment on Aadhaar only restricts UIDAI from sharing biometrics and does not put any restrictions on sharing of demographic data. In fact, under the national security clauses a lot of this can be allowed.

The government’s use of data to identify people and randomly create registries has created a multitude of problems. It is time they be put in check with the upcoming data protection bill.

Srinivas Kodali is an independent researcher working on data, internet and governance.
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14344 - Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 25 December 2019

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 25 December 2019


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