AADHAAR


Moneylife Digital Team 07 April 2025
Taking a serious note of verified workers not getting paid due to not linking their bank accounts with Aadhaar, the Supreme Court directed the Delhi government to explain which law says bank accounts cannot be operated without Aadhaar.    In an order on 2 April 2025, a bench of justice Abhay...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2025
Following reports about severe issues, including financial death due to multiple issues with Aadhaar cards and non-availability of Aadhaar seva kendras (ASKs), the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) is planning to increase the number of ASKs to 470 from 88.   According to a...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 17 March 2025
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.  -Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, 1974   "I have a file on you."   - MK Narayanan's routine threat to his adversaries as national security adviser (NSA) quoted in Sanjay Baru's book The...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 07 February 2025
In the context of 'promoting ease of living of residents' of India, “India Digital Financial Inclusion: Journey Map Report” (March 2019) by Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refers to the Aadhaar and...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 04 February 2025
The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of her unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 November 2024
While several reports ask taxpayers to link their permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar before 31 December 2024, the actual deadline to do so is already over. In fact, from 1 July 2023, PANs not linked with Aadhaar became inoperative. Since then, the Union government has been collecting...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 October 2024
The Supreme Court ruled that Aadhaar cannot be used as proof of date of birth (DoB) or proof of age and for determination of age in a motor accident claim, and the school leaving certificate having a statutory recognition is valid and acceptable proof. Even UIDAI (unique identification...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 October 2024
Jharkhand-based Ashok Parhaiya was happy when his three children got scholarships. However, his happiness vanished when he found that the bank accounts of his children were frozen for want of know-your-customer (KYC), mainly Aadhaar e-KYC. He is running around and spending money to solve the...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 August 2024
The Delhi High Court recently held that in exceptional circumstances, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) can be directed to disclose the Aadhaar information of a person to Court without granting him/her a prior hearing (Vandana v State through PS Amar Colony & Anr).   A...

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Over the years, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) and the Union government have been enforcing Aadhaar as a unique ID on every resident without even providing any solution to issues faced by common people. Without a proper and ‘leakproof’ solution, several residents are...

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A few days ago, I received a call from the local liquified petroleum gas (LPG) gas agency for KYC (know-your-customer). The agency sent a person with a mobile to do live eKYC with Aadhaar. When I asked about the need for Aadhaar eKYC, I was told it is as per the orders. Responding to my calls,...

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The Right to Information (RTI) Act is not only invoked for civic and social issues; more and more applications are being filed for information related to marital discord. For example, details of income tax returns and property tax of the estranged spouse are common and are often denied and now,...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 21 June 2024
                                                (When INDI alliance people oppose EVM, I am not seeing it as just an election, I believe that these people are people with the thinking of the last century at heart, they neither understand the importance of technology nor are they ready to...

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IANS 27 February 2024
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the state government to pay old age pension to those petitioners who do not have Aadhaar cards and mobile phones, after verifying their genuineness through bank records.   The order was passed by a division bench of chief...

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The refusal to provide information is getting so brazen that information officers at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claimed that no reports were available even when UIDAI publishes reports under different heads. It also turns out that information, when provided, raises...

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IANS 20 February 2024
A political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal over chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s allegation that the Union government is deliberately deactivating the Aaadhar cards of around 60 citizens of the state.   Referring to the complaints from 60 individuals from different parts of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2024
Notwithstanding the 30 June 2023 deadline, as many as 114.8mn (million) holders of permanent account numbers (PANs) have not linked their PAN with Aadhaar. During the past seven months till 31 January 2024, the government collected Rs601.97 crore as a penalty from PAN-holders, the Lok Sabha...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 31 January 2024
“We kill people on the basis of metadata.”   -Unrepenting admission of Michael Hayden, former head of USA’s NSA and CIA, quoted in the Draft Resolution on Mass Surveillance, The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe dated 18 March...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 19 January 2024
“The forthcoming census could be the first digital census in the history of India. For this monumental and milestone-marking task, I have allocated Rs3,768 crore in the year 2021-22.” - Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, 1 February 2021, Lok Sabha    “Census 2021 and the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2024
In yet another clarification, the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has asked all those concerned to delete the use of Aadhaar as proof of date of birth (DoB) from the list of acceptable documents. UIDAI says it observed that authentication user agencies (AUAs) and...

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