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Centre authorises states to conduct Aadhaar authentication of prisoners

The Centre has authorised state governments to carry out Aadhaar authentication of prison inmates on a voluntary basis so that they will be able to get health care, skilling, vocational training, interview with relatives and legal aid, among other services. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said the decision has been taken after it was authorised under Rule 5 of the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Rules, 2020, for the targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benefits and services. The Aadhaar authentication will be carried out on the prison inmates on a voluntary basis using Yes/No authentication facility for delivery of various benefits or facilities to which they are entitled, such as correctional reform measures, health, skilling, vocational training, interview with relatives, legal aid, etc, the notification said. The prison authorities of the states and Union Territory administrations shall adhere to the ...

MGNREGA: Why govt's app-based attendance system is facing protest

Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh termed the recent measures steps to check corruption in the scheme and said the government would not compromise on transparency

TMS Ep371: Trade deficit, Disney+ Hotstar, insurance stocks, Aadhaar Mitra

Is the fall in trade deficit a cause for cheer? Is Disney+ Hotstar in trouble? Should you buy insurance stocks amid current weakness? What is UIDAI's AI-based chatbot, Aadhaar Mitra? All answers here

Aadhaar Mitra: Everything you need to know about UIDAI's AI-based chatbot

Aadhaar Mitra can answer queries related to Aadhaar enrolment number, PVC Card order status and complaint status, among other things

Sebi allows 39 entities to use e-KYC Aadhaar authentication services in mkt

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday came out with a list of 39 entities, including Nirmal Bang Securities, NJ Indiainvest and Muthoot Securities, that can use e-KYC Aadhaar authentication services in the securities market as sub-KYC user agency. This came after Sebi in May 2020 listed eight entities including BSE that can undertake Aadhaar Authentication service of UIDAI as KYC user agency (KUA) in the securities market. Further, a KUA can permit Sebi-registered intermediaries to undertake Aadhaar Authentication of their clients as sub-KUA for the purpose of KYC (Know Your Client). Other entities listed by the regulator include Indbank Merchant Banking Services, Orbis Financial Corporation, Indo Money Securities, HSB Securities and Equities, Flourish Fincap and Vogue Commercial Company. "The above mentioned entities shall enter into an agreement with a KUA and get themselves registered with UIDAI ( Unique Identification Authority of India) as sub-KUAs. The agreement in this

Amping up DigiLocker as India moves to the next wave of digitisation

India's citizens will soon be able to access a wider range of authentic documents through their digital document wallets

Linking PAN with Aadhaar: CBDT chairperson says 480 mn linked so far

About 48 crore individual Permanent Account Numbers (PANs), out of the total 61 crore issued till now, have been linked with Aadhaar till date and those who do not link it by the declared deadline of March 31 will not get benefits while undertaking various business and tax-related activities, CBDT Chairperson Nitin Gupta said. The government has made the linkage of the two databases mandatory and declared that those individual PANs that are not attached to the Aadhaar by the end of this financial year (March 31, 2023) will be rendered inoperative. A fee of Rs 1,000 will be payable for those who want to link their PAN and Aadhaar between now and March 31. "There are about 61 crore individual PANs issued till now and out of this, around 48 crore have been seeded with Aadhaar. The difference is around 13 crore now, including the exempt category, and we hope the rest will also be linked by the end date," Gupta told PTI in a post-Budget interview. We have undertaken a number of public .

Aadhaar e-KYC transactions up 18.53% in Q3 of FY 2022-23: Govt data

In December alone, 32.49 crore e-KYC transactions were carried out using Aadhaar, over 13 per cent more than the previous month

Govt expects 5-7 countries to sign up for India's tech stack by March

The government expects five to seven countries to sign up for adopting India-developed technology platforms like UPI and Aadhaar by March for accelerating digitisation, according to Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar. While speaking at India Stack Developer Conference, the minister said that the Prime Minister has decided to offer India technology platforms to countries to help them accelerate digitisation. "I expect by February-March, about 5-7 countries around the world to sign up (for adopting platforms)," Chandrasekhar said. The government plans to reach out to several countries to offer them technology stack (Aadhaar, UPI, Digi Locker, Co-Win, GeM, GSTN etc) as part of its responsibility as G20 Presidency and expects Indian startups and system integrators to gain from the exercise.

Several countries expected to adopt India's tech stack in Feb: Minister

India not looking to monetise platform's features that can be helpful to countries for digitising economies

Gaming firms recommend self-declaration mechanism, graded KYC to MeitY

The ministry is also expected to release some guidelines to prevent a conflict of interest for the board of SRO soon

UIDAI issues guidelines to entities doing offline verification of Aadhaar

The authority asked the offline verification entities to keep the data of any Aadhaar user, if they must for any reason, only in a masked manner

UIDAI urges verification entities to comply with Aadhaar usage hygiene

Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI has issued a set of guidelines to Offline Verification Seeking Entities (OVSEs) with several usage hygiene protocols, stronger safety mechanisms at user level and ways to enhance residents' trust while using Aadhaar voluntarily. Notably, entities have been told to perform verification of Aadhaar after explicit consent of a Aadhaar holder. Also, entities must maintain the log or record of the explicit consent received from residents for any future audit by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) or any other legal agency. "These entities need to be courteous to residents and assure them about the security and confidentiality of their Aadhaar while conducting offline verification," UIDAI said in a statement. The authority has also asked OVSEs to verify Aadhaar via the QR Code present on all four forms of Aadhaar (Aadhaar letter, e-Aadhaar, m-Aadhaar and Aadhaar PVC card) instead of accepting Aadhaar in physical or electronic form as a proof of ...

Use Aadhaar confidently but maintain usage hygiene as bank account: UIDAI

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has advised people to use Aadhaar confidently as per their choice to avail benefits and services, but to observe the same level of usage hygiene as one would for other identity documents including bank account, PAN or passport. Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI also urged residents not to leave Aadhaar letter / PVC Card, or its copy unattended. Residents are advised not to share Aadhaar openly in the public domain, particularly on social media and other public platforms, UIDAI said in a statement. Aadhaar holders should not disclose their Aadhaar OTP (one-time password) to any unauthorised entity and refrain from sharing m-Aadhaar PIN with anyone. "Use Aadhaar confidently as per your choice to avail benefits and services, but observe same level of usage hygiene like any other identity documents including bank account, PAN or Passport," UIDAI said. Aadhaar is a resident's digital ID, and it works as a single source of online and offline

India's public digital platforms have delivered social inclusion: Vaishnaw

"India believes in the philosophy of inclusion. India's population scale and open source 'public digital platforms' such as UPI and Aadhaar have delivered economic and social inclusion," he added

Madras High Court rejects plea against linking Aadhaar and electricity code

The first bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea from an advocate seeking to quash a Government Order (GO) passed in October this year, which mandated seeding of Aadhaar with the electricity consumer code. There is no merit in the petition, the bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy said. The bench was dismissing the petition from M L Ravi, also founder-president of Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi who challenged the GO dated October 6 of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO).

Those not linking Aadhaar with election card will stay in voters' list: Gov

The names of people who do not share their Aadhaar number to link with the election identity card will not be struck off the voters list, the government said on Friday, noting that the exercise is voluntary. The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, allows electoral registration officers to require the existing or prospective elector to provide the Aadhaar number for the "purpose of establishing identity" on a "voluntary basis", Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said in Lok Sabha. He was responding to a question on the linkage of Aadhaar with electoral rolls. The Election Commission has launched a programme to collect the Aadhaar number of existing and prospective electors on a voluntary basis from August 1 in all the states and UTs. It is voluntary to link Aadhaar with a Voter ID and consent is obtained from the elector for Aadhaar authentication in Form 6B which was recently introduced, he said. However, the minister made it clear that "there is no provision for withdrawing the consent"

Aadhaar's new goal: AePS to facilitate financial inclusion in rural areas

As per official data, the UIDAI records seven to eight crore Aadhaar authentications every day, and AePS currently comprises nearly 40% of them

55-56 cr voters linked Aadhaar details with electoral rolls: EC officials

Nearly 56 crore of the approximately 95 crore registered voters have linked their Aadhaar details with the electoral rolls, an exercise the government and the Election Commission believe would weed out duplicate entries from the voters list. EC officials said between 55 and 56 crore voters have shared their Aadhaar details with poll authorities for linkage with the electoral roll. The Representation of the People Act was amended in December last year to pave way for voluntary linkage of Aadhaar and voter list details. Subsequently, later this year, the Union Law Ministry had issued rules to bring into force the changes carried out in the electoral law. According to a law ministry notification, using the newly-introduced Form-6B, existing voters may share their Aadhaar number will poll authorities. "In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (5) of Section 23 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), the Central Government hereby notifies the 1st April, 20

Verify Aadhaar before accepting it as proof of identity, says UIDAI

Card can be verified using the QR code available on all forms of the identity document