Aadhaar Act

So far, over 1,100 welfare schemes in the country run by both centre and states have been notified to use Aadhaar

For every Aadhaar authentication transaction performed by an Aadhaar user, the UIDAI generates a unique code to identify the transactions

Justice Abhay Oka of the Supreme Court on Saturday said the Aadhaar Act must be amended to provide remedies to those who are deprived of the important document and to make it "citizen-centric". He was speaking at a seminar on 'Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Telecom, Broadcasting and Cyber-Sector Issue, Approach and Way Forward' organized by Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). Justice Oka rued the lack of "legal literacy" among the educated class and said people "silently suffer injustice" as they do not avail remedies for problems. In 2019, the appellate jurisdiction relating to the Aadhaar mechanism was assigned to the TDSAT. "The Aadhaar Act, 2016 provides for securing the confidentiality of the information supplied by the citizens to the authority. When one applies for the Aadhaar card, one needs to supply various information and data. So the Act provides for securing the confidentiality of the information," said Justice Oka. There are restrictions on sharin

Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identity number provided by the UIDAI to the residents of India after a certain verification process

Under Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act, a person not assigned an Aadhaar number "shall be offered alternative and viable means of identification for delivery of the subsidy, benefit or service"

Government officials have claimed that Aadhaar has helped save over Rs 90,000 crore by weeding out fake beneficiaries

The architecture of Aadhaar ecosystem is geared to ensure security and privacy, which is an integral part of the system from the initial design to the final stage, he said.

IBC is considered one of the biggest success stories in the government's efforts to de-clog the economic system from ill-effects of stressed assets

The compulsory use of Aadhaar-based KYC for mobile connections and bank accounts was prohibited by the SC court

The proposed amendments in Aadhaar Act are also in sync with the Srikrishna panel recommendations that had asserted that UIDAI should not only be autonomous in its decision-making

A draft cabinet note has already been prepared by the Unique Identification Authority of India to include this amendment

The organisations intend to ask people on the ground who have been the victims of mandatory use of Aadhaar

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant predicted that there would be no concept of physical banking in future