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Aadhaar ( Hindi: आधार, lit. 'base, foundation') [ 7] is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics and demographic data. [ 8] The data is collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2016 by ...
The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 is a money bill of the Parliament of India. It aims to provide legal backing to the Aadhaar unique identification number project. It was passed on 11 March 2016 by the Lok Sabha. [ 1]
A lapse in security has led to the leaking of more than 100,000 Aadhaar numbers, TechCrunch can reveal. One of the web systems used to record attendance of government workers for the Indian state ...
The identification number has 8-digit standard format: NNNNNNN (N), where N is a numeric digit 0–9. The first numeric digit N has special meaning, and it can be one of the following digits: '1', '5' or '7'. '1': The first-time date of issuance of ID card to the bearer was 1992 or later.
Already, nearly 40 million bank accounts in India have been linked with Aadhar. According to research firm CLSA, more than 40% of the Indian government’s $250 billion worth of subsidies and ...
Image Credits: T. Narayan / Bloomberg / Getty Images. A security researcher said an Indian government website was exposing the Aadhaar numbers of India’s farmers, potentially amounting to ...
A large number of people remain without identity documents - poor people especially. In order to include them, identity requirements for Aadhaar have been reduced, however biometric facilities have been provided to reduce or eliminated duplication, so while it may be possible to obtain the card under a false name, it is less likely to be able to obtain another Aadhaar card under a different ...
The number of users saw a large jump of 753,000 new users in April when the central government urged municipal bodies to use DigiLocker to make their administration paperless. [ 8 ] From 2017, the facility was extended to allow students of the ICSE board to store their class X and XII certificates in DigiLocker and share them as required. [ 9 ]