Aadhaar/ Unique Identification Number (UID) - Revision history

Jyoti: /* Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) */

2024-11-07T16:05:14Z

‎Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)

Jyoti: /* Aadhaar can't be made compulsory for welfare schemes' benefits: Supreme Court */

2019-02-10T19:42:25Z

‎Aadhaar can't be made compulsory for welfare schemes' benefits: Supreme Court

Jyoti: /* KYC compliance */

2019-02-08T08:08:57Z

‎KYC compliance

Jyoti: /* Aadhaar is NOT essential for… */

2018-12-24T19:33:19Z

‎Aadhaar is NOT essential for…

Jyoti: /* Till 2018: Centre saved ₹90,000 crore using Aadhaar */

2018-10-13T19:25:06Z

‎Till 2018: Centre saved ₹90,000 crore using Aadhaar

Jyoti: /* Benefits */

2018-10-13T19:23:00Z

‎Benefits

Jyoti: /* Virtual ID system/ E- Aadhaar */

2018-10-05T00:59:06Z

‎Virtual ID system/ E- Aadhaar

Jyoti: /* SC, 2018: Constitutionally Valid; but not mandatory at banks, examinations, phones, schools */

2018-10-04T22:16:33Z

‎SC, 2018: Constitutionally Valid; but not mandatory at banks, examinations, phones, schools

Jyoti: /* SC acknowledges state interest linking Aadhaar with welfare schemes */

2018-10-04T22:15:57Z

‎SC acknowledges state interest linking Aadhaar with welfare schemes

Jyoti: /* Unique ID Had Slashed Customer Acquisition Costs By 85% */

2018-10-04T22:13:21Z

‎Unique ID Had Slashed Customer Acquisition Costs By 85%

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	Post-ALP, the increase in average number of muster rolls filled was 5,727 and the average of households that reached 100 days went up to 621 households. The average person days worked was 3,26,019 days. On an average, amount disbursed to bank accounts was Rs 2.7 crore.		Post-ALP, the increase in average number of muster rolls filled was 5,727 and the average of households that reached 100 days went up to 621 households. The average person days worked was 3,26,019 days. On an average, amount disbursed to bank accounts was Rs 2.7 crore.
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		+	=Evidentiary value=
		+	==Is not authoritative DoB proof/ SC==
		+	[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=25_10_2024_016_017_cap_TOI Oct 25, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	New Delhi : Observing that Aadhaar is not an authoritative proof for date of birth, SC set aside a Punjab and Haryana HC order which had relied on Aadhaar for deciding the age of a victim for calculating the amount of compensation in a road accident case.
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		+	A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Ujjal Bhuyan saidif there are reliable age documents, then they should be considered.
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		+	It approved the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal’s (MACT) decision to rely upon School Leaving Certificate for age determination as there was a difference in date of birth on the two documents.
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		+	The court noted that UI- DAI by way of its circular in 2023, had stated, in reference to an office memorandum issued by the electronics and information technology ministry, that an Aadhaar card, while can be used to establish identity, is not per se proof of date of birth. The card has not been relied upon by various HCs as proof for date of birth, SC said.
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		+	“That being the position, as it stands with respect to determination of age, we have no hesitation in accepting contention of claimant-appellants, based on School Leaving Certificate. Thus, we find no error in the learned MACT determination of age based on the School Leaving Certificate,” bench said.  TNN
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		+	[[Category:Government\|A
		+	AADHAAR/ UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (UID)]]
		+	[[Category:India\|A
		+	AADHAAR/ UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (UID)]]

	=Foreigners/ expatriates and Aadhaar=		=Foreigners/ expatriates and Aadhaar=

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	The UIDAI was established by UPA-2 in 2009.		The UIDAI was established by UPA-2 in 2009.
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		+	== Criminal probes: Aadhaar not conclusive proof/ HC==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F01%2F27&entity=Ar00715&sk=FFC2F44F&mode=text Ravi Singh Sisodiya, Aadhaar info not conclusive proof in criminal probes: HC, January 27, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Aadhaar card details — such as name, gender, address and date of birth — cannot be taken as conclusive proof during an investigation into a criminal case, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has said. These entries may be subject to verification in case of doubt, the court said in a January 9 ruling, which was made public on Friday night.
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		+	The court clarified that an Aadhaar card was a document that provided a conclusive link between the cardholder’s photograph, his/her fingerprints and iris scan with Aadhaar number.
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		+	A bench of justices Ajai Lamba and Rajeev Singh said, “If a person relies on Aadhaar entries as proof of address and date of birth, these cannot be considered conclusive proof under the Evidence Act.”
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		+	The verdict came during the hearing of a writ petition in which a woman challenged an FIR lodged by her mother about her kidnapping with Sujauli police station in Bahraich. In her FIR, the mother had said that her minor daughter was abducted by a man and his relatives. In her writ petition, the woman pleaded that she was a major and was not kidnapped but had married on her own free will. She alleged that her mother did not accept her marriage and lodged a false FIR against her husband and his family members. On the high court’s intervention, police investigated the case and gave a clean chit to the woman’s husband and her in-laws. The case was closed.
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		+	However, during the hearing, the court took cognisance of the aggrieved woman and her husband’s Aadhaar card details, which mentioned her date of birth as ‘January 1, 1999’ and his as ‘January 1, 1997’. The court was intrigued by ‘January 1’ in both the Aadhaar cards and said it found same date of birth in many such cards. Therefore, the court said, this must be clarified with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
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		+	On the court’s direction, UIDAI Lucknow regional office deputy director Jasmine filed an affidavit and appeared in the court. In the affidavit, she said, “Aadhaar is only proof that a person obtaining subsidy or service by identifying himself/herself on the basis of Aadhaar number is the same person who enrolled after providing biometrics and documents. If a resident does not have a valid date of birth document, it’s recorded on the basis of a declared date. If the date is approximate, the age is verbally communicated by the resident to the operator, based on which the year of birth is calculated. By default, the date of birth is recorded as January 1 of that calendar year.”
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		+	After this clarification by UIDAI, the court said name, gender, address and date of birth on the Aadhaar card can’t be taken as conclusive proof.
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		+	The Allahabad high court, in a January 9 ruling, clarified that entries like name, gender, address and date of birth may be subject to verification in case of doubt

	==Govt can make Aadhaar must for opening bank accounts: SC==		==Govt can make Aadhaar must for opening bank accounts: SC==

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	The new norms are subject to the final judgment of the Supreme Court on Aadhaar		The new norms are subject to the final judgment of the Supreme Court on Aadhaar
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		+	==For I-Tax returns: 2019 onw==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F02%2F07&entity=Ar00511&sk=0B641AE3&mode=text PAN-Aadhaar link must to file I-T returns from this year, February 7, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Putting to rest all doubt, the Supreme Court has said that linking the permanent account number with Aadhaar is mandatory for filing income tax returns.
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		+	A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer said the top court has already decided the matter and upheld Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act. The court’s order came on an appeal filed by the Centre against a Delhi high court ruling allowing Shreya Sen and Jayshree Satpute to file income tax returns for assessment year 2018-19 (financial year 2017-18) without linking their Aadhaar number and PAN.
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		+	There were some other individuals too who had been given relief last year.
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		+	''' ‘Majority of PANs already linked to Aadhaar’ '''
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		+	The aforesaid order was passed by the HC having regard to the fact that the matter was pending consideration in this court. Thereafter, this court has decided the matter and upheld the vires of Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act. In view thereof, linkage of PAN with Aadhaar is mandatory,” the bench said.
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		+	Sen and Satpute had filed their returns following the court order and the assessment has also been completed. The SC made it clear that for the current assessment year, returns have to be filed after linking PAN and the unique ID. The order flows from the September 26 verdict, which declared Aadhaar legally valid and allowed its use for getting subsidies and linking with PAN.
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		+	While several taxpayers wanted to opt out of Aadhaar and did not want to link their PAN, the government has maintained that it is critical to ensure that individuals don’t evade taxes with multiple PANs. A majority of PANs have already been linked to Aadhaar, government sources said. Activists were not very happy with the latest verdict. Suman Sengupta, activist and civil engineer, said, “We need to ask if Aadhaar is verified data or has it been audited. Then if someone links PAN with a fraudulent Aadhaar and subsequently links it with a phone number, how can UIDAI or income tax department verify that?”

	= Aadhaar is NOT essential for…=		= Aadhaar is NOT essential for…=

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	For children who are not yet assigned an Aadhaar number or those whose biometrics are not updated, the UIDAI said that under Aadhaar rules it will be the “responsibility” of schools to arrange for enrolments and biometric update facility.		For children who are not yet assigned an Aadhaar number or those whose biometrics are not updated, the UIDAI said that under Aadhaar rules it will be the “responsibility” of schools to arrange for enrolments and biometric update facility.
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		+	=Aadhaar: voluntary use=
		+	== Aadhaar-enabled payment system in banks==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F01&entity=Ar01114&sk=8E0F1640&mode=text Can’t stop Aadhaar-enabled payment system: UIDAI to banks, December 1, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	The UIDAI has told banks that it is obligatory to continue Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AePS)facility for customers as there was nothing in the Supreme Court order that barred voluntary use of Aadhaar for payment and receipt by account holders for purposes other than welfare benefits.
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		+	Responding to a move by State Bank of India intimating its intention to discontinue AePS, the UIDAI said in a circular on Friday, “Any action to discontinue such payments or receipt mechanism (AePS, BHIM Aadhaar Pay) or bank accounts on the grounds that it is not possible to distinguish their use for delivery of welfare benefits or other purposes may be held contrary to Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act and the (SC) judgment.”
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		+	The UIDAI clearly stated that withdrawal of AePS would amount to creating an obstruction in delivery or benefits and may cause denial in deserving cases. The authority quoted the SC order that the purpose of authentication was to ensure that only rightful persons received benefits. “Non-action is not costly. It’s affirmative action which costs the government. And that money comes from the exchequer. So, it becomes the duty of the government to ensure that it goes to deserving persons,” the circular quoted the SC as saying.

	=Benefits=		=Benefits=

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	''How the Centre saved 90,000 crore using Aadhaar, presumably till Sept 2018''		''How the Centre saved 90,000 crore using Aadhaar, presumably till Sept 2018''
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		+	Direct benefit transfer and other governance reforms, which helped remove duplicate and fake beneficiaries and plugged leakages, saved the government 90,000cr in various schemes.

	==Haryana: ousts fake ration beneficiaries==		==Haryana: ousts fake ration beneficiaries==

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 =Benefits=
 ==Haryana: ousts fake ration beneficiaries==
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Aadhaar-ousts-fake-ration-beneficiaries-30062017022022  Dipak Dash, Aadhaar ousts fake ration beneficiaries, June 30, 2017: The Times of India]

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	“Virtual ID is a critical security measure for protecting residents’ privacy and their Aadhaar numbers. With the introduction of VID, an Aadhaar holder will have an option of not sharing his/her Aadhaar number and can generate a virtual ID to share with AUAs to perform Aadhaar-based authentication,” said UIDAI chief executive Ajay Bhushan Pandey.		“Virtual ID is a critical security measure for protecting residents’ privacy and their Aadhaar numbers. With the introduction of VID, an Aadhaar holder will have an option of not sharing his/her Aadhaar number and can generate a virtual ID to share with AUAs to perform Aadhaar-based authentication,” said UIDAI chief executive Ajay Bhushan Pandey.
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		+	=See also=
		+	[[Aadhaar/ Unique Identification Number (UID)]]
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		+	[[Aadhaar/ Unique Identification Number: SC verdict, 2018]]

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 The Supreme Court will also pronounce on a petition by Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who has sought dismissal of a petition in Gujarat high court challenging his election to Rajya Sabha in August last year.
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 =Party politics and the Aadhar Bill=

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	An official said the order has given some relief to those who use PAN as an ID for purposes other than filing income tax returns and this is a very small subset which is not a tax assessee and does not have Aadhaar.		An official said the order has given some relief to those who use PAN as an ID for purposes other than filing income tax returns and this is a very small subset which is not a tax assessee and does not have Aadhaar.
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		+	==SC, 2018: Constitutionally Valid; but not mandatory at banks, examinations, phones, schools==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/supreme-court-declares-centres-aadhaar-scheme-constitutionally-valid/articleshow/65961162.cms September 26, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	All eyes will be on the Supreme Court when a five-judge constitution bench led by CJI Dipak Misra delivers the judgment on constitutional validity of Aadhaar, challenged by 31 petitions on grounds that it violated the right to privacy of citizens.
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		+	The SC order will have implications for linking Aadhaar to government welfare and financial inclusion schemes, bank accounts and PAN cards, UID authentication by private entities and also address concerns over exclusion, privacy and security as regards storage and use of biometric data of 122 crore individuals currently enrolled by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
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		+	A bench of CJI Misra + and Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan will determine if use of Aadhaar violates right to privacy and should be struck down. On an alternative, there is a possibility the SC could uphold validity of Aadhaar and yet call for robust data protection regime to safeguard personal data linked to Aadhaar and rule out a big brother regime.
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		+	On August 24, 2017, while delivering its ruling giving right to privacy the status of a fundamental right, the SC had said the Centre may have justifiable reasons, apart from security concerns, for collection and storage of data. If on one hand, the SC rejected the Centre's argument that privacy could not be treated as a fundamental right to scuttle right to food of millions through Aadhaar-linked welfare schemes, it conceded the need for collection of personal data to ensure essential items reached needy.
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		+	Justice Chandrachud, writing the main judgment in the right to privacy issue, had said, “In a social welfare state, the government embarks upon programmes which provide benefits to impoverished and marginalised sections of society. There is a vital state interest in ensuring that scarce public resources are not dissipated by diversion of resources to persons who do not qualify as recipients.”
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		+	But the fate of Aadhaar remains in the realm of speculation till the five-judge bench delivers its verdict on Wednesday. The government has argued that Aadhaar linkage will curb tax evasion and crime as use of multiple PAN cards and fictitious bank accounts will be checked by UID’s near-foolproof identity authentication.
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		+	Wednesday will be a mega day in the Supreme Court as it would also deliver a verdict on whether to refer to a seven-judge bench the request for reconsideration of the 2006 judgment in the Nagraj case, in which the apex court had inserted three caveats while upholding validity of quota in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Tribes government employees.
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		+	The Supreme Court will also give its decision on PILs seeking live streaming of court proceedings. During the hearing, the court had agreed with attorney general K K Venugopal to start delayed live streaming on an experimental basis in the Chief Justice of India’s courtroom pertaining to important constitutional issues.
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		+	The court will also give its verdict on another PIL filed by NGO ‘Lok Prahari’ demanding that once an MP, MLA or MLC was convicted and sentenced to two or more years of jail and so disqualified, no court should stay conviction in the interim stage of appeal to permit a convicted politician to resume membership of the House.
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		+	The Supreme Court will also pronounce on a petition by Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who has sought dismissal of a petition in Gujarat high court challenging his election to Rajya Sabha in August last year.
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	=Party politics and the Aadhar Bill=		=Party politics and the Aadhar Bill=

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 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F09%2F27&entity=Ar02702&sk=AA01B91F&mode=text  Digital biz models hobble without Aadhaar support, September 27, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: Driving FIN services.jpg|Driving FIN services <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F09%2F27&entity=Ar02702&sk=AA01B91F&mode=text  Digital biz models hobble without Aadhaar support, September 27, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+[[File: Driving financial services.jpg|Driving financial services <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F09%2F27&entity=Ar02702&sk=AA01B91F&mode=text  Digital biz models hobble without Aadhaar support, September 27, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 ''Unique ID Had Slashed Customer Acquisition Costs By 85%''