14404 - 26th Feb 2020 - Aadhaar Daily Updates

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 26 February 2020

What happens if you don't link PAN, Aadhaar and PAN becomes inoperative?
Economic Times
It also clarified that in case of those who link their PAN with Aadhaar after March 31, then PAN will "become operative from the date of intimation of

National Population Register-Aadhaar seeding began in 2015
The Hindu
The Telangana government embarked on a massive Aadhaar - National Population Register (NPR) updation exercise and seeding exercise across ...

Despite Weeding Out 'Fake' Aadhaar Cards, UIDAI Dismissal Of Flaws In Aadhaar Data Makes ...
#KhabarLive Hyderabad (press release) (blog)
Their standard response to each case that came to light was to deactivate all the Aadhaar numbers that were enrolled by the busted gang. Activists ...

UPSC to SSC, Banks to Railways: 7 Documents Needed To Apply For Govt Jobs
The Better India
Uploading your Aadhaar card is the safest option as it has biometric identification too. If you don't have an Aadhaar card then you can locate your ...

Special Camp on Feb. 29
The Hindu
A special camp to facilitate certain categories of people to apply for Aadhaar Card or Family Card will be held at the District Collectorate on February ...

Sonbhadra man gets power bill of Rs 1 cr, officers say can''t help
Outlook India
Amarnath, who owns six bighas of land in the village, told IANS: "An official of the Electricity Department took my Aadhaar Card to provide a

"There is no issue" with NPR, says TN CM
Outlook India
"Now the Centre has included three additional aspects--language, parents'' place of birth, and (furnishing) of documents like Aadhaar, ration card and ...

How to port airtel to Jio mobile number
Business Insider India
You need to produce an address proof like Aadhaar Card. If your Aadhaar card does not have the local address, you need to carry any other valid ...

Applying For PAN Card To Withdrawing PF: Here's How UMANG App Is A Must
News Nation
It can be used to apply for the Aadhaar card and to change the address on the card and more. By using the UMANG app, Aadhaar card can be viewed ...

Mozilla calls for openness in Digital ID systems
Capital FM Kenya
In India, for example, there are documented cases of people dying because they did not have an Aadhaar number or their Aadhaar didn't work.

Haritha Sena training camp today
The Hindu
... S. Guruvayurappan said here that those yet to get the annual working fund of the Haritha Sena should provide bank account and Aadhaar details.

In Karnataka, elderly to get ration at their doorsteps
The Hindu
To crackdown on fake or ineligible families holding BPL ration cards, it had been decided to link all ration cards to Aadhaar cards, he said. A database ...

PAN Card Online: Beware! Apply only on this link to avoid big loss
Financial Express
The tax department recently rolled out the option for people to get an instant Pan Number with the help of their Aadhaar number. Applicants for PAN ...

How Delhi-based 'vishing' gang cheated hundreds in Tamil Nadu by speaking in Tamil
The Hindu
... as a bank official, claiming that their card had been blocked or by offering a prize on their mobile phone number or updating the Aadhaar number.

New CC roads for city peripheries
The Hindu
Entitlements such as Aadhaar card and ration card will be provided to beggars besides inclusion in relevant welfare schemes. On the sanitation front, ...

Punjab assembly wants passport condition for Pak corridor waived
Times of India
... could ask Pakistan to “remove the condition of passport and, in lieu of it, other documents like Aadhaar card should be permitted for identification.

Plea filed in Telangana HC against SBI for seeking NPR as proof
The New Indian Express
Accordingly, it sent notices to customers to visit the bank and update KYC by providing either Aadhaar/ voter ID/driving licence / passport/letter issued ...

Mumbai: Two on bike snatch handbag of documentary filmmaker in auto
Times of India
She said when the auto reached Juhu Circle, the pillion rider snatched her bag containing her debit and Aadhaar cards as she was on the phone.

RBI move to create a counterpart to NPCI needs a rethink
The Hindu BusinessLine
The NPCI also supports and promotes Aadhaar-enabled payments services and the RuPay card network. It collaborates with nearly 144 banks.

Workshops on product, technology, and design at Future of Work to help you race ahead of your ...
YourStory.com
... Anandamoy Roychowdhary (Director of Technology, Sequoia Capital), Pramod Varma (Chief Architect of Aadhaar), Rahul Chari (Co-founder & CTO ...

PIL In Telangana HC Against SBI Advertisement Seeking Production Of 'Letter From NPR' For KYC ...
Live Law
The impugned advertisement published in the Sunday Times of India, Hyderabad, seeks the production of a number of documents viz. Aadhaar Card ...

TDS on salary, perquisites 2020: How benefits you enjoy will be taxed – Check calculation
Financial Express
TDS (Tax Deducted at Source on Perquisites) paid by the employer for AY 2020-21: Employers responsible for paying any income chargeable under ...

Computer vision: Key macroeconomic and regulatory CV trends revealed
Verdict
The police are not allowed to access biometric data from Aadhaar cards. However, facial recognition would allow officers in India's local police forces ...

HDFC Bank joins hands with MeeSeva
Elets
Some of the pivotal services for which payments have been facilitated are namely electricity and telephone bills, property tax and charges for Aadhaar ...

UPSC civil services prelims 2020: Important notification issued by commission
Hindustan Times
A photo ID card like Aadhaar Card, Voter Card, PAN Card, Passport, Driving Licence or any other photo ID card issued by the state or central

DC briefs officers ahead of bypoll
The Shillong Times
... of identification and voters, who do not possess one, may also bring other valid documents such as Aadhaar Card, Driving License, PAN Card, etc.

Indian Railways Jobs: Check Out Vacancies, Eligibility, How to Apply & Dates
The Better India
Enter your registration details like name, date of birth, Aadhaar number, contact, and so on. The email ID you use for registration must be yours.

SBI account holders alert! You may not be able to do transactions after 28 Feb - Here is why
Zee Business
SBI Alert: Do you have an account in the State Bank of India (SBI)? If yes, then this might be an interesting piece of news for you. The SBI has issued a ...

Hyderabad: Opposition misleading people on CAA, flays Kishan Reddy in Amberpet
The Hans India
Amberpet: The union minister of state for home affairs, G Kishan Reddy, advised opposition leaders to stop their propaganda on CAA. He was ...

JK administration directs health officials to implement Aadhaar linked birth registration by June
NewsNow.IN
J-K administration directs health officials to implement Aadhaar linked birth registration by June. J-K administration directs health officials to implement ...

Photo Printing Market Outlook: World Approaching Demand & Growth Prospect 2020 – 2025
The Market Journal (press release)
According to the Unique Identification Authority of India, 93% of the adults in India possess Aadhaar card, contributing significantly to the photo printing ...

Government gives Holi gift to millions of pensioners, EPF account holders will get this benefit
News Track English
For maximum benefit of PF, UAN needs to be linked with Aadhaar. EPFO will introduce an e-inspection system to monitor Compliance by employers.

14403 - 25th Feb 2020 - Aadhaar Daily Digest,

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 25 February 2020 

BJP seeks probe over reports of Rohingyas securing Aadhaar in Telangana
Deccan Herald
Alleging that several Rohingyas have secured Aadhaar cards in Telangana by producing false documents, the BJP on Monday demanded that a ...

India's 1st Aadhaar authenticated farmers' database likely in June
Economic Times
New Delhi: The government will launch first of its kind Aadhaar-authenticated digital data base of farmers in June, agriculture secretary Sanjay ...

Karthik Muralidharan: 'To an extent, both supporters and critics of Aadhaar for service delivery are ...
The Indian Express
A J-PAL study in Jharkhand on the use of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication (ABBA) in PDS delivery has found that leakages were reduced but ...

Baal Aadhaar Card details: How can I get Baal Aadhaar Card for my child? 10 important things to ...
Financial Express
Baal Aadhaar Card colour, online application: Did you know your child can also enroll for an Aadhaar card? A newborn child can be issued a Baal ...

Aadhaar kendra to open in city
The Hindu
Lakshmikanta Dash, Assistant Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), will inaugurate the first CSC Aadhaar Seva Kendra in ...

JK administration directs health officials to implement Aadhaar linked birth registration by June
The New Indian Express
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday directed health officials to fully implement the Aadhaar linked birth registration (ALBR) ...

[Watch] Kerala Man Slaps Migrant Labourer For Refusing To Show Aadhaar Card
The Logical Indian
A video of a Kerala auto driver demanding Aadhaar card from a migrant labourer from West Bengal and then slapping him has gone viral. The incident ...

UIDAI's dismissal of flaws in Aadhaar data has led to Hyd police asking for crackdown
The News Minute
Despite several previous instances of 'fake' Aadhaar cards, the UIDAI has maintained that their database is accurate and unbreachable.

Aadhaar to be linked with voters ID, EC makes fresh push for electoral reforms
കേരള കൌമുദി
Accepting the proposal to give it legal backing to collect Aadhaar data, the Law Ministry is learnt to have asked the poll panel to ensure that the data is ...

1 in 3 Aadhaar-based Payments for PM Matru Vandana Yojana Credited to Wrong, Untraceable 
Moneylife
One in three Aadhaar-based payments for the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) was credited to wrong bank accounts which are even ...

Govt To Launch Aadhaar-Linked Master Database For Agri Schemes
Inc42 Media
To ease the implementation process of farmer-related government schemes, the Indian government will launch an Aadhaar-authenticated digital ...

Authentication of beneficiary accounts with Aadhaar starts
Times of India
Nashik: The process of authenticating the accounts of the beneficiaries of loan waiver schemes with their Aadhaar number has started in the district.

Aadhar Card Copy: How to Get a Aadhar Card Copy Online
Moneycontrol.com
These days you need your Aadhaar card for many so things, so you tend to carry the card wherever you go. When you do that, there's a good chance ...

SC notice to states on plea claiming starvation-related deaths
India Legal
Senior Advocate and founder of HRLN, Colin Gonsalves, representing the petitioners, submitted that the Aadhaar linkage has resulted in the ...

Army recruitment test: One held with fake Aadhaar card
Times of India
Varanasi: A man was held taking exam in place of some other candidate during the common entrance examination (CEE), held under the second ...

From new tax regime to costlier foreign tours, four changes that kick in from April 1
The New Indian Express
Your PAN card will become inoperative from April 1 if you fail to link it to your Aadhaar by March 31. Although the government had extended the .

UMANG App: One-stop to avail over 500 services
The Siasat Daily
This application provides seamless hassle-free experience for government services like Aadhaar, EPFO, NPS, PAN etc. UMANG App. Developed by ...

2.13 cr framers left out from PM KISAN yojana
Daily Pioneer
According to sources, Aadhaar-based enrolment and cash transfers, slow internet connections in many rural centres, and messy land records have ...

33 'students' caught taking UP Board exams with fake documents
Times of India
On Friday, the students were asked to come with their Aadhaar cards for the exam. While at least 48 of them skipped the exam, 33 of the examinees ...

How fraudsters trick PF subscribers into transferring money to unknown accounts
Moneycontrol.com
Then, he asked Rajendra to verify personal details such as mobile number, email ID, Aadhaar number, Permanent account number (PAN), last ...

PMAY-G: State asks districts to improve tally
Times of India
He has directed collectors to complete the Aadhaar seeding of the beneficiaries and complete construction of the remaining 19,616 houses at the ...

Rayagada CRPF Jawan's body seized
Daily Pioneer
From the Aadhaar card, the body was identified as Dharam Dev from Uttar Pradesh. Dharam was serving as a Havildar in CRPF's 4th Battalion.

Wanted gangster Ravi Pujari sent to police custody till March 7
ANI News
Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, appearing for the petitioner, contended that Aadhaar linkage has resulted in 2.33 crore cancellation of ration cards ...

NRC will not be implemented in Bihar: Nitish
Outlook India
Kumar had asked the Centre to drop new columns in NPR forms like parents'' places of birth and Aadhaar, saying they were "not necessary" and might ...

NPR update in Bihar to be as in 2010: Nitish Kumar
Telegraph India
Some of the fields on which data were not sought in the 2010 NPR but are being sought now are the date and place of birth of parents, Aadhaar ...

School asked to provide records of students caught with fake docus
Times of India
The matter came to the fore when it was found that the date of birth on the Aadhaar cards and admit cards of the students concerned did not match.

Shabbir Ali flays Home Minister
The Hindu
However, the BJP government made it contentious by adding six new parameters which include Aadhaar number of the resident, voter ID, PAN, ...

Privacy faces challenges from hackers, pvt firms, govt in digital age: Justice DY Chandrachud
Outlook India
Recalling the 2018 Aadhaar verdict in which a five-judge constitution bench had by majority upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act, ...

Cornell Law School conducting fact-based study on issues like CAA, NRC
Outlook India
Kalantry said the Centre is working on summarising important Indian Supreme Court cases such as on the Aadhaar scheme, decriminalisation of ...

HDFC Bank ties up with MeeSeva
The Hindu
Some of the major services for which payments have been facilitated include electricity and telephone bills, property tax and charges for Aadhaar ...

Supreme Court seeks replies from Odisha and other states on Food Security Act plaints
Wink Report (press release) (blog)
During the hearing, senior advocate Colin Gonsalves argued that despite the court order, the government has linked ration cards with Aadhaar ue to ...

14402 - Aadhaar Daily Digest,

Aadhaar, Daily update ⋅ 23 February 2020

How to get 'free' e-PAN using Aadhaar
Economic Times
The government has launched a facility to provide instant Permanent Account Number (PAN) to an individual having Aadhaar number. This is a ...

Labour officials 'tweak' Aadhaar details to hush up Shagun scam
The Tribune
In an attempt to cover up the shagun scheme scam in the Labour Welfare Board, the Aadhaar card details of illegitimate beneficiaries have allegedly ...

Hyderabad man who got Aadhaar notice to prove citizenship was under probe for making fake ...
India Today
The man who triggered the row over Aadhaar notices to 127 people in Telangana has dubious past and was under probe for creating fake documents, ...

German journalist questions India's data privacy law: Aadhaar best invention since sliced bread?
National Herald
Most importantly, from 2009, he was in charge of the government's Aadhaar-project, a unique biometric identifier for all citizens and all purposes, into ...

New Study Backs Reports That Aadhaar-PDS Link in Jharkhand Led to Exclusions
The Wire
Requiring Aadhaar to obtain PDS benefits in Jharkhand led to considerable reduction in leakage, but also led to non-trivial increase in exclusion error ...

New study points out the shortcomings of the Aadhaar-linked PDS system
Financial Express
The government claims to have saved Rs 90,000 crore by way of eliminating subsidy/benefit leakages by using Aadhaar, as the resulting identification ...

BJP seeks Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao's response on Aadhaar fraud issue
The New Indian Express
The citizen's identity cards, including PAN, Aadhaar and ration cards are 'up for sale' in the State, especially in the Old City area, which is under ...

Aadhaar cards row: UIDAI clarification on notices is inconsistent on citizenship
The New Indian Express
Meanwhile, an Aadhaar official said that these checks are routine and a part of the process to keep databases updated.

From the chief architect of Aadhaar to CTO of India's first non-banking platform, meet the Speakers ...
YourStory.com
For the last two years, YourStory has brought together design and product experts of the startup ecosystem under one umbrella through its initiative ...

First CSC Aadhaar Seva Kendra in the state to be operational from Feb 25
The New Indian Express
The first complete Aadhaar Seva Kendra (ASK) for Aadhaar enrolment and other services in the state will start functioning from Tuesday.

Is Aadhaar smoke screen for NRC in Telangana?
The Siasat Daily
“I was shocked after what happened in that Aadhaar case. I haven't been able to sleep because of it. Is the Telangana government in collusion with ...

Three-day Aadhaar enrolment drive in Guwahati from February 26
Northeast Now
An on-spot Aadhaar enrollment drive will be launched by the State Bank of India (SBI) during its three-day-long Financial Inclusion Outreach Initiative ...

Centre working on Bill to link Aadhaar with voter ID
OrissaPOST
New Delhi: The Centre is working on a Bill to amend the election law to mandatorily link Aadhaar with voter identity card. The objective is to clean up ...

Aadhaar use in PDS 'not a free lunch,' finds a study
The Indian Express
A new study on the use of Aadhaar in the functioning of the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Jharkhand has found that biometric authentication did ...

'Fake' Aadhaar row: Telangana police's cordon and search operation comes under scanner
The New Indian Express
The UIDAI stated that they were following up on reports made by the State police that around 127 people had allegedly obtained Aadhar based on

Employees' Provident Fund: Link your Aadhaar with UAN to get PF, pension payments on time
Financial Express
The contributions for EPF come from the mandatory deductions from the employees' monthly salary and the matching contributions by the employers.

India details plans for biometric authentication with different modalities for remote voters
Biometric Update
A Cabinet note has allegedly been in the works outlining legal changes so that the EC can connect voter ID to Aadhaar numbers to optimize the ...

Aadhaar cards obtained by colluding with MeeSeva staff
NYOOOZ
By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: The UIDAI officials, who served notices to more than 127 persons for allegedly obtaining fake Aadhaar cards, ...

Six stocks that may gain as GST, IBC, Jan Dhan, Aadhaar help Modi formalise economy
Financial Express
With the formalisation of the economy helped by Government of India's linking of Jan Dhan Accounts with mobile numbers and Aadhaar cards to plug ...

AP govt takes down inter exam website that leaked students' Aadhaar data
The News Minute
The hall ticket numbers could be easily guessed and the poor cyber security of the website meant, it was easy to “brute force” and access data.

Biometric data poses grave risks to privacy
Mail and Guardian
The Aadhaar programme's primary goal was to manage government benefits and eliminate “ghost beneficiaries” of public subsidies. But it has now ...

PM's bid to clean up real estate sector hits the 'Babu Wall'
The Sunday Guardian
Lawyer and BJP leader, Ashwini Upadhyay, who has been pushing the government to link Aadhaar with immovable properties, was once again ...

Voter ID enough Proof of Citizenship: Court acquits couple
The Siasat Daily
The court said since the couple posses not only Aadhaar Card, PAN card and Ration Card, but also Voter ID which is alone sufficient proof of ...

New Income Tax regime, invalid PAN to simple GST return: 5 changes from April 1
Financial Express
Right from the end of linking PAN-Aadhaar deadline to the availability of new GST return system, there will be many tax and economic changes that ...

One in three payments for maternity benefit scheme credited to wrong account
The Hindu
One in three Aadhaar-based payments for the Centre's maternity benefit scheme, or Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), was credited to ...

Know the process of making e-PAN Card
News Track English
In this, if you have an Aadhaar card, you can be provided an online pen card immediately without any delay. Also, no fee can be charged for this.

How to withdraw from Provident Fund account for home loan repayment
Financial Express
Please note that there are also two types of claim forms – with Aadhaar and non-Aadhaar. Those, who want to opt for online EPF withdrawal, need to ...

Provident fund pensioners can submit life certificate online anytime of the year
Livemint
NEW DELHI : Pensioners under the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) can now submit their life certificate online anytime during the ...

Lack of crores of banks on this approach by means of bank card, arrested from Greater Noida
Sahiwal Tv (blog)
These folks made bank cards by means of faux Aadhaar and PAN playing cards. With this bank card, each of them have looted crores of rupees to the ...

Saryu Roy washes hands of ration card deletion
Telegraph India
BJP leader-turned-Independent MLA from Jamshedpur East Saryu Roy iterated on Friday that the deletion of ration cards for Aadhaar non-linkage was ...

Mumbai court: Voter ID proves citizenship
The Tribune
They produced several documents as evidence, including Aadhaar card, PAN card, election card and passbook. The magistrate held that an election ...

AIADMK seeks to reach out to Muslims, says it will not allow
Outlook India
The K Palaniswami government has also written to the Centre that certain information and documents like Aadhaar should be avoided in the ...

14401 - 21st Feb 2020 - Aadhaar News Update,

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 21 February 2020
NEWS

Aadhaar verification notices to 127 Hyderabad residents not citizenship test, says UIDAI
Deccan Herald
UIDAI has on Wednesday issued a clarification reading: "Aadhaar is not a document of citizenship" and that "Aadhaar has got nothing to do with the ...

EC renews bid to link Aadhaar, voter id; law ministry may move cabinet note
Livemint
New Delhi - The Election Commission of India (EC) on Tuesday renewed its bid for linking Aadhaar with voter identity card, in an effort to clean up ...

Linking Aadhaar database to electoral roll is unwise
Economic Times (blog)
The union cabinet, according to media reports, is likely to amend the Aadhaar Act to legally empower the election commission to link the Aadhaar ...

Tread with care: Linking electoral roll with Aadhaar can empower migrant voters, but must not be ...
Economic Times (blog)
The government is considering amending the Aadhaar legislation to legally empower the Election Commission to link the electoral roll with the unique ...

Centre working on legal changes to link Aadhaar with voter ID soon
India Today
Linking of Aadhaar with voter ID is on the cards with the Centre informing the Election Commission that it has moved to amend the Aadhaar Act to link ...

Over 400 Aadhaar Cards In Telangana Lined For Deactivation, Claims BJP
NDTV
BJP's Telangana unit spokesperson K Krishna Saagar Rao on Thursday said that over 400 Aadhaar cards in the state are lined up for deactivation as ...

Link PAN to Aadhaar, Secure Data by Law
Economic Times (blog)
Several deadlines have gone by, after the Supreme Court's ruling mandating PAN-Aadhaar linkage, which is needed to weed out duplicate PANs.

UP: Fake Aadhaar, PAN cards used for duping banks, 2 held
Outlook India
Noida (UP), Feb 19 (PTI) Two men, accused of duping banks of crores of rupees using credit cards made on the basis of forged Aadhaar and PAN ...

Registration for Pashu Aadhaar begins in dist
Times of India
The Aadhaar-like system for animals was introduced last year, following a government committee recommending UID for cattle and buffaloes to ...

Aadhaar Services on SMS: Full list of facilities from UIDAI - Check how you can get these benefits ...
Zee Business
Aadhaar Card authority, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has introduced a service called “Aadhaar Services on SMS” which enables ...

How to hyperlink Aadhaar and UAN (straightforward 5 steps)
Sahiwal Tv (blog)
And just lately, EPFO ​​has launched a Universal Account Number (UAN) –aadhaar linking facility utilizing the federal government's UMANG cell app ...

Aadhaar SMS Services: Know about Various Aadhaar Service Through SMS
Moneycontrol.com
Aadhaar SMS services are not well known by the masses; an individual can lock/unlock Aadhaar, create a virtual id & more through SMS service.

News updates from Hindustan Times: 127 people in Hyderabad neighbourhood asked to verify ...
Hindustan Times
More than a 100 people in a Hyderabad neighbourhood have been asked by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to verify their Aadhaar ...

Saying Aadhaar, PAN not enough to prove citizenship unfair: Asaduddin Owaisi
The New Indian Express
First, they said PAN card is the citizenship card, then Aadhaar came. But now, even these documents are not enough to prove our citizenship. How fair ...

Aadhaar Seva Kendra closed on Shivaratri
Star of Mysore
The Aadhaar Seva Kendra in Vijayanagar in city will remain closed on Feb. 21 on account of Maha Shivaratri, according to a press release from ...

Amid oppn uproar, House passes agri & jan aadhaar bills
Times of India
Jaipur: The assembly on Tuesday passed two bills, Rajasthan Agriculture Produce Markets (amendment) Bill 2020 and Rajasthan Jan Aadhaar ...

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi slams aadhaar notices to 127 people
India TV
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi accused the Unique Identification Authority Of India ( UIDAI ) of bias after it sent notices to 127 people of Telangana ...

Jharkhand: Almost 90% of deleted ration cards belonged to real households, finds study
Scroll.in
Almost 56% of these deleted ration cards were not linked with Aadhaar. The study comes at a time when the Jharkhand government is reportedly ...

“How Many Muslim, Dalit?” Asaduddin Owaisi slams Aadhaar notices to 127 – TV9 (Video)
SocialNews.XYZ
“How Many Muslim, Dalit?” Asaduddin Owaisi slams Aadhaar notices to 127 – TV9 (Video) ... #AsaduddinOwaisi #Aadhaar #TV9Telugu. Facebook ...

Centre working on legal changes to link Aadhaar with voter ID soon – TV9 (Video)
SocialNews.XYZ
Centre working on legal changes to link Aadhaar with voter ID soon – TV9 (Video). Posted By: Social News XYZ February 20, 2020 ...

Asaduddin Owaisi hits out on Aadhaar's notice to 127 in Hyderabad – TV9 (Video)
SocialNews.XYZ
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India's Growing Surveillance State
Foreign Affairs
A Congress party–run government launched the Aadhaar program in 2009 with the stated goal of giving every Indian a clear, stable form of ...

Govt to give EC legal power to link Aadhaar with Voter ID – TV9 (Video)
SocialNews.XYZ
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv9telugu ▻ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tv9Telugu. #Aadhaar #EC #TV9Telugu.

WATCH: Aadhaar & Voter ID to be linked soon to remove bogus & duplicate entries from voter list
Times Now
The Government moves to amend the Aadhaar Act to empower the Election Commission & link Aadhaar with Voter ID in an attempt to remove bogus ...

Yemeni national held for illegally staying in India
The Siasat Daily
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police has arrested a Yemen national for illegally staying in India and seized illegal Indian passport and Aadhaar card ...

False Aadhar: Hyderabad lawyer slaps legal notice to UIDAI
The Siasat Daily
The UIDAI who is exercising its Powers under the Aadhaar Act, 2016 and nowhere in the Aadhaar Act the law states about the production of ...

BSF Assistant Commandant commits suicide in JK's Kathua
ANI News
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 20 (ANI): BJP's Telangana unit spokesperson K Krishna Saagar Rao on Thursday said that over 400 Aadhaar ...

14400 - 19th Feb 2020-Aadhaar Daily Updates,

Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 19 February 2020
NEWS

UIDAI orders three Muslim Aadhaar-holders in Hyderabad to prove their Indian citizenship
Scroll.in
If they fail to appear in person and produce the documents, their Aadhaar numbers will be deactivated. However, the notice did not specify the ...

Delhi HC adjourns hearing in plea for linking property documents with Aadhaar
Livemint
Once the Aadhaar linkage happens, tax authorities can approach the 'legal owners' and it can be treated as benami property if the 'legal owners' are ...

India Election Commission working on remote voting with Aadhaar biometrics
Biometric Update
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) is building an electronic remote voting system based on Aadhaar biometrics for the Election ...

PAN-Aadhaar Link: New Income Tax notification says PAN-Aadhaar card linking possible even ...
Financial Express
New Income Tax Rules 2020: People failing to link their PAN with Aadhaar for Income Tax benefits will be able to so even after March 31. But there is ...

Aadhaar card likely to be must in land deals in Kerala
ETRealty.com
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Following the decision to link details of land holders with their respective Aadhaar numbers, the government is also likely ...

HC adjourns PIL seeking linking of Aadhaar with property
The Weekend Leader
... the tax authorities will get the details of "legal owners" immediately and once the Aadhaar linkage takes place, tax authorities can approach them.

Aadhaar likely to be must in land deals
Times of India
Thiruvananthapuram: Following the decision to link details of land holders with their respective Aadhaar numbers, the government is also likely to take ...

DDC for POS, Aadhaar based transactions
State Times
DDC for POS, Aadhaar based transactions ... the Officers/ officials to stress on POS based authentication and Aadhaar authenticated transactions.

PAN-Aadhar Link: CBDT made a giant announcement; it is very important know
Sahiwal Tv (blog)
New Delhi. The Income Tax Department has stated that for those who didn't hyperlink your PAN to Aadhaar by 31 March, will probably be canceled.

40 electoral reforms pending, EC tells law ministry; asks for false affidavits to be made electoral ...
Firstpost
The Election Commission on Tuesday made a fresh push for electoral reforms with the government, including making paid news and false affidavits ...

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14399 - #MarginalizedAadhaar: Is India's Aadhaar enabling more exclusion in social welfare for marginalized communities?

#MarginalizedAadhaar: Is India's Aadhaar enabling more exclusion in social welfare for marginalized communities? 

The use of personal data in Aadhaar raises serious privacy concerns
Posted 17 February 2020 

11:19 GMT




Ramani, a Lanjia Sora language speaker walking in her home in Rayagada district, Odisha, India. (Image by author, CC-BY-SA 4.0 License)

This post was first published at Yoti as a part of Subhashish Panigrahi's Digital Identity Fellowship. It has been edited for Global Voices.

The recent State of Aadhaar report that claims statistically that the Indian digital identity has mostly been beneficial with a negligible exclusion is in sync with the makers of the technology and largely the Indian government. However, perspectives reflected through interviews with marginalized communities and other stakeholder experts prove otherwise.

The report claims that 92 percent of the 167,000 surveyed people are “satisfied with Aadhaar’’ and 90 percent “trust that their data are safe in the Aadhaar system.’’

The report, however, did not address surveillance and risks to the right to privacy, which is crucial to the human rights and digital rights of India's population of 1.3 billion people (1.23 billion out of the total 1.3 billion people have enrolled for Aadhaar by 1 January 2020). The report was published by international consulting firm Dalberg Global Development Advisors with support from Omidyar Network.

The Indian government also often puts the state's national security above such individual rights, a concern that has recently been amplified with the ongoing discussions around the Personal Data Protection Bill of 2019 (read the proposed bill here) which can give the government agencies to access people's private data.

What is Aadhaar?

Aadhaar is a unique 12 digit number provided by a public organization Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that Indian residents can obtain by providing their biometric data and demographic data. Aadhaar is tied to a range of citizen beneficiary services, and logistical and technical issues have led to the exclusion of many marginalized communities. Similarly, the use of personal data in Aadhaar for authentication by public and private entities have raised serious human rights issues.

Unique Identity (UID) is used to tag Indian citizens with Aadhaar by centralizing a range of personal data (including biometric). Contrary to a popular misconception that Aadhaar is yet another “card” that provides the Indian citizens a form of identity, it is merely a number.
Research subjects

The 20 individuals — whose interviews form the basis for this report — are from communities that are marginalized on the basis of social and economic factors and are based in the Indian states of Odisha and Uttarakhand in four different locations. Five (33%) of the interviewees were women and two of those women were illiterate, whereas the male interviewees were all literate. Interviewees from Odisha were from two adivasi (indigenous) communities — Lanjia Sora and Jurai Sora, and the interviews from Uttarakhand were from low economic groups.

The other set of interviewees were key stakeholders including human rights lawyers and activists, litigators, ethnographers, and academic and other researchers.

Aadhaar, social benefits, and exclusion

As Aadhaar has been and is being linked to many citizen beneficiary services, authorities tend to use fingerprint scanning-based identification and authentication. Services like state pension or rations (food, fuels and so on) — or even subsidized healthcare — are received by individuals who are generally marginalized on the basis of age, literacy, access to public information in one’s own language, etc. Illness or manual labor can cause loss of or change in fingerprints which one might have to update periodically. Such a case can make a fingerprint-based authentication to fail.

‘‘For someone already part of a public system and already receiving their benefits, the complexity of getting everything connected through Aadhaar becomes burdensome,’’ shares a researcher-interviewee (who did not want to be named) who was studying the receipt of public benefits such as pensions and Public Distribution System (PDS), a federal government initiative to provide food and essential commodities to people in need with the objective of eradicating poverty) in rural Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He adds, “people who do manual labor, or have an illness, or are in old age (or any of these combinations) often find their fingerprints are not detected or authenticated’’ while emphasizing how authentication using a mobile number or biometric (it has to be either in the case of Aadhaar) has many flaws, an issue researcher and human rights lawyer Dr. Usha Ramanathan and advocate Rahul Narayan also highlighted.

According to Dr. Ramanathan: “maintaining a valid mobile number or maintaining the same phone number used at the time of enrollment, failure of updating the number has led to exclusion’’ is a huge challenge, ‘‘the techno-utopians’’, the tech-savvy group behind Aadhaar – because of their own privileges, and lack of knowledge of ground reality – fail to understand.’’

Noted litigator Shyam Divan calls the Aadhaar system “dehumanizing’’ as it enables denial of rations to the poor over failure in fingerprint-based Aadhaar authentication. By November 2018, Right to Food Campaign activists in the Indian state of Jharkhand reported that 17 people had died in Jharkhand alone because of their failure to link their ration cards to Aadhaar – even though the State of Aadhaar report states that 80% of people feel that “Aadhaar has made PDS rations, MGNREGS schemes, or social pensions more reliable.” It is important to note that the failure, however small it might look in percentage terms, is massive in reality when you consider there are 1.3 billion people in India. “It took a year to get my Aadhaar card,’’ shares Manjula, a Lanjia Sora homemaker from the Gajapati district of Odisha who is in her early forties.

Unique, Ubiquitous and Universal: Features or systemic flaws

Former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani who led Aadhaar's development in 2008-2009, detailed its three main pillars — Unique, Ubiquitous and Universal. Dr. Ramanathan, who was part of some of the discussions led by Nilekani was early to recognize that Aadhaar is not what it was designed for. He explained:

the “Unique’’ part was not to give a unique identity to every citizen but to use Aadhaar as a tool to identify them its “Ubiquitous’’ design was to link the records of every single resident of India that are scattered across databases
the “Universal’’ feature makes every person feel compelled to enroll for Aadhaar, even though enrollment is marketed as voluntary

“It was clear from the beginning that the people who would suffer the most are the poor. As an untested technology that is being imposed on people, the whole project was shot from the shoulders of the poor without knowing if such an ID would work or not. Aadhaar is not a card but a number attached to a biometric. If the biometric doesn’t work, the number doesn’t work,” Dr. Ramanathan added.

Rahul Narayan, a lawyer in the Indian Supreme Court, feels that Aadhaar's design has a striking and dangerous similarity to the governance structures Stalin or Hitler created. Narayan is frenzied by the idea of accumulating personal data collected by public and private services using Aadhaar.

Access to information

Lack of access to information surfaced as a huge marginalization factor in the field interviews. Ramani, a 70-year-old Jurai Sora lady from the Rayagada district of Odisha recounts how she and other illiterate folks from her village suffered during Aadhaar enrollment. They relied on bilingual officials and others for help in translation. “Public announcements are made by Endia,’’(originated from “India”, refers here to a bilingual person who brings public announcements to the people) shares Dinabandhu, an elderly Lanjia Sora male.

In a country with over 700 languages (only 22 are officially recognized) and a 74.8 percent literacy rate, only about 12 languages are used in the official implementation of Aadhaar. The claim of 92 percent of Aadhaar holders being satisfied with it and 90 percent of them trust that their data is safe with the government in State of Aadhaar seems highly ambitious and impractical.

Despite huge efforts to make Aadhaar the go-to ID verification for many public and private services, Section 9 of the Aadhaar Act 2016 – which addresses the use of authentication as a proof of citizenship and domicile – was called “unconstitutional” in an Indian Supreme Court verdict issued in December 2019. Many communities during these interviews were happy to have an Aadhaar “card’’ to themselves as an entitlement, and they now failed to imagine their lives without one.

Written bySubhashish Panigrahi