2017 THE YEAR OF AADHAAR HOW AADHAAR HIT THE HEADLINES IN 2017 Year after year, Aadhaar keeps making news, with new rules, deadlines, and allegations of leaks and misuse. What did 2017 see? |
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JANUARY 1, 2017 AIRPORT MAKES AADHAR COMPULSORY FOR EMPLOYEES Tiruchi Airport made Aadhaar compulsory to avail airport entry passes for employees and officers. [News Source] |
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JANUARY 7, 2017 SC POSTPONES AADHAAR PIL HEARING The Supreme Court declined the urgent hearing of a Public interest litigation (PIL) on privacy concerns regarding use of the Aadhar card. [News Source] |
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JANUARY 7, 2017 AADHAAR MADE COMPULSORY FOR PENSION SCHEMES Pensioners and Employees’ Provident Fund holders were asked to submit either their Aadhaar card or proof that they have applied for one by the end of January, to be able to withdraw their money [News Source] |
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JANUARY 9, 2017 AADHAAR MUST FOR MGNREGS WORK Aadhaar was made compulsory for workers in rural areas enrolled under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which mandates 100 days of work for a household a year in order to avail salaries [News Source] |
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JANUARY 20, 2017 AADHAAR MADE COMPULSORY FOR IT RETURNS Business Standard quoted unnamed government sources saying that Aadhar would be made compulsory for availing income tax returns, by making PAN and Aadhaar link to each other. [News Source] |
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JANUARY 27, 2017 "PLASTIC AADHAAR CARDS NOT NECESSARY" UIDAI says Aadhaar card printed on paper is valid and there is no need to pay for plastic laminated Aadhaar cards [News Source] |
JANUARY 29, 2017 AADHAAR CROSSES 111 CRORE REGISTRATIONS “Aadhaar generation has crossed the 111-crore mark in a population of 125 crore in the country,” announced Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad. [News Source] |
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FEBRUARY 5, 2017 ATM ATTACKER TRACED THROUGH AADHAAR? Police claimed that Aadhaar card and information from UIDAI helped them nail the infamous ATM Attacker Madhukar Reddy, who had assaulted a bank employee Jyothi Uday, in an ATM near Ulsoor Gate police station [News Source] |
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FEBRUARY 7, 2017 AADHAAR-BASED PATIENT REGISTRATION IN GOVT HOSPITALS Karnataka intends to add 47 government hospitals on the Union government’s Online Registration System (ORS) by March 31 which is Aadhaar-based. [News Source] |
FEBRUARY 10, 2017 "GET AADHAAR BEFORE JUNE 30" The government extended the deadline to avail Aadhaar card to June 30 [News Source]
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FEBRUARY 25, 2017 AADHAAR BIOMETRIC DATA BREACH TRIGGERS PRIVACY CONCERNS Data breach was detected after UIDAI found multiple transactions done with the same fingerprint, which raised concerns of illegal storage of the data. This comes at a time when the government is pushing for Aadhaar-based transactions to promote its digital mission and the apex court is poised to debate concerns on privacy. [News Source] |
FEBRUARY 28, 2017 POS INDUSTRY WARY OF AADHAAR-ENABLEMENT OVER COST, SECURITY ISSUES Mandate to make POS machines aadhaar-enabled triggers suspicion among POS industry [News Source] |
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MARCH 5, 2017 UNDER RTI LAW, AADHAAR DATA BREACHES WILL REMAIN A STATE SECRET Under RTI, Aadhaar users have no right to be informed when a crime related to their personal data occurs. And they cannot approach a court directly because under Section 47 (1) of the Aadhaar Act, the Unique Identification Authority of India has the exclusive power to make complaints in case of any violation or breach of privacy. [News Source] |
MARCH 6, 2017 GOVERNMENT REFUTES ALLEGATIONS OF AADHAAR DATA MISUSE “Aadhaar-based authentication is robust and secure compared to any other contemporary system. The Aadhaar system has the capability to inquire into any instance of misuse of biometrics and identity theft and initiate action,” the UIDAI reiterated in an official statement. [News Source] |
MARCH 9, 2017 AADHAAR NOW MANDATORY FOR PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA CONNECTIONS The central government made Aadhaar card mandatory for economically backward women to avail of free cooking gas connections [News Source] |
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MARCH 26, 2017 AADHAAR-MOBILE LINKING SAGA STARTS Cellular operators' body COAI said its members may meet this week to discuss the modalities of rolling out the verification process for the existing one billion-plus mobile phone users. [News Source] |
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MARCH 27, 2017 AADHAAR TO BE COMPULSORY FOR DRIVING LICENCE, RENEWALS The government plans to make Aadhaar mandatory for new licence or renewal of one’s driving licence. [News Source] |
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MARCH 29, 2017 CELEBRITY TOUCH FOR AADHAAR DATA LEAK Sakshi Dhoni, wife of cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, says her husband's privacy has been breached, after a government Twitter handle uploaded Dhoni's application for Aadhaar card. [News Source] |
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MARCH 31, 2017 GOVT ADMITS TO DATA BREACH The government officially acknowledged that personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been leaked to the public domain, and it was a punishable offence. [News Source] |
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APRIL 6, 2017 UNIQUE PROBLEMS FOR SOUTH INDIANS IN LINKING AADHAAR TO PAN People, especially those in the south of the country, who do not have surnames attached to their names but only initials, found it difficult to link their PAN with Aadhaar. [News Source] |
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APRIL 10, 2017 AADHAAR MUST FOR WEB-ACCESS TO SURVEY OF INDIA MAPS The Survey of India, the country’s scientific and official maker of maps, has set up a web portal called Nakshe that allows 3,000 of its 7,000 maps to be downloaded for free, but the one who downloads needs to have an Aadhaar for such access. [News Source] |
APRIL 27, 2017 DELHI HC ASKS DELHI GOVT TO ALLOW AFGHAN GIRL TO STUDY WITHOUT AADHAAR The Delhi High Court directed the AAP government to ensure that a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl, who was allegedly asked by her school not to attend classes as she did not have an Aadhaar card, be allowed to study. [News Source] |
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APRIL 28, 2017 SC SAYS AADHAAR MUST BE VOLUNTARY "We are alive to the orders passed by this court which says it should be voluntary," a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said. [News Source] |
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APRIL 29, 2017 40,000 ‘ERRONEOUS’ PAYMENTS IN AADHAAR-LINKED SUBSIDY DISBURSAL IN KARNATAKA There were nearly 40,000 suspected erroneous payments reported, in the first-ever Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) disbursal of input subsides — given as part of drought relief — to around 18 lakh farmers in the State. [News Source] |
APRIL 30, 2017 AADHAAR TO BE COMPULSORY FOR FILINGS UNDER COMPANIES ACT Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA) has started work for implementing a framework to make quoting of Aadhaar compulsory in the filings made under the companies law. [News Source] |
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MAY 3, 2017 SUPREME COURT PUTS CRITICS OF AADHAAR-PAN LINKAGE IN A SPOT "When a citizen is part of a tax regime, can you say that I will pay taxes only the way I want to do it... Is there a right of choice in the limited context of tax laws?” Justice A.K. Sikri, who heads the Bench also comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan, asked, pointing to the line between freedom of privacy and responsibility of a citizen. [News Source] |
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MAY 19, 2017 JUNE 30 NOT A ‘DEADLINE’ TO GET AADHAAR, GOVT. TELLS SC The government retracted its statement on June 30 being the deadline to get Aadhaar, in a supreme court hearing [News Source] |
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MAY 31, 2017 PAN-AADHAAR LINKAGE THROUGH SMS The Income Tax Department on Wednesday urged taxpayers to link their Aadhaar with their PAN, using an SMS-based facility [News Source] |
JUNE 1, 2017 POSTAL DEPARTMENT INITIATES AADHAAR REGISTRATION The Department of Post became a registrar of UIDAI. Post office staff across the country, trained and certified by UIDAI to handle the registrations. [News Source] |
JUNE 4, 2017 TWO ARRESTED FOR MAKING UID CARD WITHOUT PAPERS The Delhi Police arrested two persons from outer Delhi’s Mongolpuri for allegedly making Aadhaar cards without documents for a higher fee. [News Source] |
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JUNE 9, 2017 SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS AADHAAR-PAN LINKAGE Supreme Court upheld the validity of an Income Tax law amendment linking PAN with Aadhaar for filing tax returns and making Aadhaar or Aadhaar enrollment slip compulsory to apply for a Permanent Account Number (PAN) card. [News Source] |
JUNE 10, 2017 CBDT SAYS AADHAAR MUST FOR FILING I-T RETURNS, NEW PAN FROM JULY 1 The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Saturday clarified that Aadhaar card will be mandatory for filing Income Tax returns and applying for Permanent Account Number (PAN) from July 1, 2017. [News Source] |
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JUNE 17, 2017 AADHAAR BECOMES COMPULSORY FOR BANK ACCOUNTS The government in a notification, amending a prevention of money laundering law, has made it mandatory to provide Aadhaar to open a bank account and to conduct a transaction of Rs. 50,000 or more. [News Source] |
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JUNE 21, 2017 TB PATIENTS NEED AADHAAR FOR CASH BENEFIT Tuberculosis patients, hospitals and healthcare workers availing cash assistance from the government will need to register with the Aadhaar database by August 31, according to the Union Health Ministry. [News Source] |
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JUNE 23, 2017 PETITIONERS QUESTION AADHAAR STATISTICS The government statistics as told to the Supreme Court that 95.1% of the entire population is covered by Aadhaar, which has already seen 115.5 crore enrollments, is sheer "puffery" and includes the dead too. [News Source] |
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JULY 2, 2017 UIDAI SNUBS POLICE SEEKING BIOMETRICS The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) snubbed all law enforcement agencies, including the Delhi Police, for their repeated requests for biometrics of people for criminal investigations. UIDAI says investigating agencies such as CBI and NIA have been sending requests for details of Aadhaar card holders. [News Source] |
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JULY 4, 2017 CAN'T CITE TECH GLITCHES TO REFUSE AADHAAR ENROLMENT, UIDAI WARNS AGENCIES UIDAI issued a stern warning to enrolment agencies for refusing enrolment to residents citing technical glitch or on any other pretext, and termed such refusal as "corrupt practice". [News Source] |
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JULY 7, 2017 AADHAAR-LINKED ISSUES TO BE DECIDED BY CONSTITUTION BENCH: SC The Supreme Court said all the issues arising out of Aadhaar should finally be decided by a larger bench and the Chief Justice of India would take a call on the need for setting up a constitution bench comprising seven or nine judges. [News Source] |
JULY 10, 2017 DATA OF OVER 120 MILLION JIO CUSTOMERS LEAKED A nondescript website called magicapk reportedly had access to data of over 120 million Reliance Jio users. The website gave out details like first name, last name, mobile number, email-id, circle, SIM Activation Date and even Aadhaar Number. [News Source] |
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JULY 11, 2017 MORE THAN HALF OF ALL BANK ACCOUNTS LINKED TO AADHAAR: RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD As many as 67 crore of the 110 crore bank accounts in the country are now linked with Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identification number, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. [News Source] |
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JULY 12, 2017 HUGE RUSH TO LINK AADHAAR WITH PF ACCOUNTS Provident Fund authorities expect at least 85% of about 5 lakh pensioners in Karnataka to link their Aadhaars to pension accounts in the next two months since several thousand pensioners didn’t receive their pension. [News Source] |
JULY 12, 2017 RELIANCE JIO ADMITS TO SYSTEMS BREACH IN POLICE COMPLAINT Many users registered for Jio using their 12-digit Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) number, commonly known as the Aadhaar number. The government is pushing for Aadhaar numbers to be used in everything from opening a bank account to filing tax returns [News Source] |
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JULY 14, 2017 GURUGRAM MULLING AADHAAR-LINKED VOTING The Haryana Election Commission considers Aadhaar-assisted voting in a municipal ward in Gurugram during the civic body elections scheduled for later this year. The move will involve voter identity cards being linked with Aadhaar cards. [News Source] |
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JULY 16, 2017 INSURERS TO COLLECT AADHAAR OF AGENTS TO REMOVE DUPLICATIONS Regulator, IRDA asked insurance companies to collect Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity, of their agents for creation of an online database in order to eliminate duplications. The Insurance Information Bureau of India (IIB) will house the database. [News Source] |
JULY 19, 2017 RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS INHERENT IN CONSTITUTION, PETITIONERS TELL SUPREME COURT Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium told the Supreme Court that the right to privacy is a pre-existing natural right which is inherent in the Constitution though not explicitly mentioned. [News Source] |
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JULY 19, 2017 210 GOVERNMENT SITES FOUND DISPLAYING AADHAAR DETAILS Central and state government departments were found to be displaying personal details and Aadhaar numbers of beneficiaries, Parliament was informed on this day, by Minister of State for Electronics and IT PP Chaudhary. [News Source] |
JULY 27, 2017 PRIVACY BUILT INTO AADHAAR ACT, SAYS UIDAI “Privacy is non-negotiable, confidentiality is non-negotiable under the Aadhaar Act,” the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the nodal agency implementing the Aadhaar scheme, said in the Supreme Court. [News Source] |
JULY 29, 2017 AADHAAR CENTRES ONLY AT GOVT. PREMISES FROM SEPTEMBER UIDAI asked States to ensure that all enrolments, even those by private agencies, shift to government or municipal premises from external sites by September 2017. The move will have a bearing on 25,000 active enrolment centres across India and ensure that they come under direct supervision of the authorities. [News Source] |
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JULY 29, 2017 PROBE INTO AADHAAR DATA ‘MISUSE’ BEGINS Two days after a case was booked against a Bengaluru-based startup for ‘misusing’ the Aadhaar database, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) sources claimed on Friday that the database was not ‘hacked’ nor has there been a ‘data breach’. [News Source] |
JULY 31, 2017 GOVT EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR FILING ITR TO AUGUST 5, AADHAAR-PAN LINKING TILL AUGUST 31 In a last minute decision, the government today extended the deadline for filing Income Tax Returns (ITRs) and linking Aadhaar with the Permanent Account Number (PAN) of taxpayers. Deadline for filing ITRs by August 5, the deadline for Aadhaar-PAN linking is August 31. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 1, 2017 PANEL TO DRAFT DATA PROTECTION BILL, SUPREME COURT TOLD Highlighting the need for a comprehensive law on data protection, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) informed a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Centre has constituted a committee of experts, led by former Supreme Court judge, Justice B.N. Srikrishna, to identify “key data protection issues” and suggest a draft data protection Bill. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 3, 2017 TECHIE ARRESTED IN BENGALURU FOR ACCESSING AADHAAR DATA Abhinav Srivastav, 31, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, was arrested by the Bengaluru city police on the charge of accessing Aadhaar data, the police said in a statement. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 4, 2017 AADHAAR REQUIRED FOR DEATH CERTIFICATES In a move to curb identity fraud, the government made Aadhaar numbers a pre-requisite for issuing death certificates to residents of all States, barring Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya and Assam, in order to establish the identity of the deceased. The order comes into effect from October 1, 2017. A date will be notified separately for the three States, the Home Ministry said in a statement. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 5, 2017 GOVT EXTENDS DEADLINE TO GET AADHAAR FOR FREE LPG CONNECTION The government extended the deadline by which Aadhaar is mandatory for availing free cooking gas (LPG) connections. The government had in March mandated that anyone not having Aadhaar but desirous of availing free LPG connection under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana must apply for it by May 31. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 10, 2017 DENIAL OF BENEFIT OVER LACK OF AADHAAR IS VIOLATION OF NORMS: UIDAI CEO Denial of government benefits because of lack of Aadhaar or problems in its authentication is violation of norms and the violators should be punished, UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 11, 2017 AROUND 81 LAKH AADHAAR DEACTIVATED TILL DATE: GOVT. The Unique Identification Authority of India has deactivated close to 81 lakh Aadhaar numbers till date, Minister of State for Electronics and IT P.P. Chaudhary said [News Source] |
AUGUST 12, 2017 AADHAAR NOT LIABLE FOR DENIAL OF BENEFITS, SAYS UIDAI CHIEF Taking on criticism about some individuals being denied benefits owing to issues related to Aadhaar, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), said it is a “technology of people’s empowerment and not a tool of exclusion or denial.” [News Source] |
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AUGUST 24, 2017 AADHAAR ARCHITECT NANDAN NILEKANI SET TO TURN PEACEMAKER Nandan Nilekani, the Aadhaar architect who was sought by Narendra Modi government despite having fought elections on a Congress ticket, could well turn out to be the peace broker between the warring founders and management at Infosys. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 24, 2017 RIGHT TO PRIVACY JUDGMENT KEEPS AADHAAR CASE OPEN A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution. [News Source] |
AUGUST 25, 2017 AADHAAR ACT WILL PASS PRIVACY TEST, SAYS UIDAI CHIEF Tax payers will have to link their PAN with Aadhaar by the stipulated deadline, which is this month-end, as the Supreme Court verdict on privacy has no bearing on the requirement, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said today. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 26, 2017 THE CIA CAN ACCESS INDIA'S ENTIRE AADHAAR DATABASE, SAYS WIKILEAKS Whistleblower site WikiLeaks published a secret report revealing that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had the technology to access the unique identification data of Indian citizens that have enrolled for Aadhar. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 27, 2017 UIDAI REFUTES WIKILEAKS REPORTS OF AADHAAR DATA SNOOP, SAYS SYSTEM IS SECURE The statement by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) came after WikiLeaks hinted that CIA had allegedly accessed the Aadhaar database. UIDAI asserted that Aadhaar system had stringent security features to prevent any unauthorised capture or transmission of data. [News Source] |
AUGUST 28, 2017 PLEA FOR EARLY AADHAAR HEARING The petitioners in the Aadhaar case is expected to make an urgent mentioning before a Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on August 29 for an early decision on the validity of the scheme [News Source] |
AUGUST 30, 2017 CALL TO MAKE AADHAAR AVAILABLE FOR NRIS The UAE-based Pravasi Bandhu Trust urged the Centre to make Aadhaar available for all citizens, including Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). Though only resident Indians were eligible for Aadhaar, many NRIs were applying for it because of its requirement for many services in India, Trust chairman K.V. Shamsudheen said in a statement. [News Source] |
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AUGUST 30, 2017 AADHAAR DATA KEPT, PROCESSED ONLY ON OWN SECURE SERVERS: UIDAI The UIDAI yet again rejected charges that foreign firms were accessing sensitive data, saying no Aadhaar information has ever been stored or processed outside its own data centre and resides only within its fully-secured servers. [News Source] |
AUGUST 31, 2017 TAX DEPARTMENT EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR AADHAAR-PAN LINKAGE TILL DECEMBER 31 The government extended by four months the deadline for linking PAN with biometric identifier Aadhaar till December 31. The deadline for linking PAN with Aadhaar for taxpayers was to end on August 31. [News Source] |
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 BANKS WITHOUT AADHAAR CENTRES FACE RS 20K FINE FROM OCTOBER The UIDAI gave banks one more month to open Aadhaar enrolment centres in a stipulated 10 per cent of branches and will impose Rs 20,000 as fine per uncovered branch after September 30, CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said. [News Source] |
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017 SIM CARDS NOT LINKED TO AADHAAR TO BE DEACTIVATED AFTER FEBRUARY 2018 Informed sources claim the government is moving ahead with linking Aadhaar with mobile SIM cards and all unlinked phones will be deactivated after February 2018. [News Source] |
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 AADHAAR LAW LIKELY TO PASS TEST OF CONSTITUTIONALITY, SAYS ARUN JAITLEY Finance Minister Arun Jaitley exuded confidence that Aadhaar law will pass the test of constitutionality, saying the legislation has adequate safeguards for data protection. [News Source] |
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 AADHAAR LINKAGE TRICK: MAN CHEATED OF ₹50K A senior citizen was tricked into revealing his debit card details, by a conman posing as a representative from his bank and saying he needed the details to link his account to his Aadhaar card. [News Source] |
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 UIDAI SLAPS NOTICE ON AIRTEL The UIDAI slapped notices on Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank over its retailers allegedly opening payments bank accounts without taking "informed consent" of customers who go for Aadhaar-based mobile SIM verification. [News Source] |
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OCTOBER 15, 2017 SUPREME COURT TO HEAR PLEA AGAINST LINKING AADHAAR TO BANK ACCOUNTS, PHONES The Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the government move to link bank accounts and mobile phones with Aadhaar numbers, saying it violates the fundamental right to privacy and equates citizens, including the elderly, women and students, with money launderers. [News Source] |
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OCTOBER 21, 2017 RBI CLARIFIES WHY LINKING OF AADHAAR WITH BANK ACCOUNT IS MANDATORY The Reserve Bank of India clarified that linking of Aadhaar to bank account is mandatory under the Prevention of Money-Laundering (Maintenance of Records). The clarification comes after a section of the media reported while quoting a reply to a Right to Information Act application that linking of bank accounts with Aadhaar is not mandatory. [News Source] |
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OCTOBER 25, 2017 CENTRE PROPOSES TO EXTEND AADHAAR LINKING DEADLINE TO THOSE ‘WILLING TO ENROL’ The government proposed extending the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phones from December 31, 2017 to March 31, 2018, but only exclusively for those who are “willing to enrol for Aadhaar”. [News Source] |
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OCTOBER 29, 2017 GOVERNMENT, BANK STAFF TO BIOMETRICALLY SIGN OFF AADHAAR ENROLMENT The UIDAI will soon evolve a process for authorised employees of banks, post offices and the government to biometrically sign off Aadhaar enrolment and updation form collection [News Source] |
OCTOBER 30, 2017 FIVE-JUDGE STATUTE BENCH TO DECIDE ON AADHAAR VALIDITY The Supreme Court decided to constitute a five-judge Constitution Bench to hear petitions from November against the validity of the Aadhaar scheme. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra took the step after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal said falsehoods had been spread about Aadhaar linking. [News Source] |
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OCTOBER 31, 2017 AADHAAR A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: SWAMY BJP MP Subramanian Swamy opposed a move to make Aadhaar compulsory, saying it would be a threat to national security and be struck down by the Supreme Court. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 2, 2017 AADHAAR LINK TO LIFT TRAIN TICKET BOOKING CAP The Railways increased the monthly cap on tickets booked online from six to 12 for Aadhaar-verified passengers. [News Source] |
NOVEMBER 2, 2017 RAJASTHAN POLICE USES WOMAN'S AADHAAR DETAILS TO TRACK HER KILLER The Rajasthan Police used the biometric information from the Aadhaar card of a 23-year-old woman to track her alleged killer after it couldn't identify her partially charred body using traditional methods of probe. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 3, 2017 SC SEEKS CENTRE'S REPLY ON PLEAS CHALLENGING AADHAAR ACT The Supreme Court sought the government’s response on four petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act and linking of bank accounts and mobile numbers with the 12-digit biometric identification number [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 5, 2017 AADHAAR TO AID RAIL STAFF ATTENDANCE The railway ministry said it will install Aadhaar-based biometric attendance system across its zones and divisions by January 31 2018 [News Source] |
NOVEMBER 6, 2017 OVER 39 PERCENT PANS LINKED WITH AADHAAR Over 13.28 crore Permanent Account Numbers (PANs) have been linked with the Aadhaar till now, official sources said. With this, 39.5 per cent of PANs are now linked with Aadhaar numbers. There are about 33 crore PAN cards, while Aadhaar has been issued to about 115 crore people. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 8, 2017 TN HC SAYS NO TO FILING OF I-T RETURNS WITHOUT AADHAAR Making a quick course-correction against an order passed by it on October 31 permitting an advocate to file income tax returns without quoting her Aadhaar number, the Madras High Court on Tuesday rejected a similar plea made by another I-T assessee after finding that the Supreme Court had not dispensed with the requirement of Aadhaar for filing of I-T returns. [News Source] |
NOVEMBER 8, 2017 LINKING AADHAAR WITH INSURANCE POLICIES MANDATORY: IRDAI In sharp contrast to Irdai’s clarification two months ago when it said such linkage was voluntary, the Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (Irdai), through a communication on Tuesday, clarified that all insurance policies must be linked with Aadhaar. [News Source] |
NOVEMBER 15, 2017 UIDAI NOD TO TELCOS' BLUEPRINT ON NEW SIM REVERIFICATION MODES The Unique Identification Authority of India approved the blueprint presented by telcos to operationalise new modes like OTP for Aadhaar-based SIM reverification of existing subscribers from December 1. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 17, 2017 SC TO HEAR NRI PLEA FOR RELIEF FROM AADHAAR-BANK LINK The Supreme Court gave liberty to a UAE-based professional to approach the Bench, expected to be set up shortly to hear the various petitions challenging the Aadhaar scheme, with his plea to exempt Non-Resident Indians from linking their bank accounts with Aadhaar. [News Source] |
NOVEMBER 21, 2017 AADHAAR A DOUBLE WHAMMY FOR THE DISABLED Activists say that there should be doorstep Aadhaar enrolment as well as special camps for those with disabilities to get their Aadhaar cards now that all social security schemes have been linked with it. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 22, 2017 TELCOS SEEK 'REALISTIC TIMELINE' TO OFFER AADHAAR LINKING VIA OTP The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) sought at least one more month to implement the OTP-based system for linking Aadhaar with mobile numbers, slated to come into effect December 1 onwards. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 23, 2017 PRIVATE SCHOOLS DEMAND AADHAAR FOR 3-YEAR-OLDS The sudden surge in the number of Aadhaar applications is because nursery admissions have begun in the city and private schools are asking for Aadhaar details in admission forms. [News Source] |
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NOVEMBER 24, 2017 ABOUT 500 MISSING CHILDREN TRACED THROUGH AADHAAR: UIDAI As many as 500 missing children have been traced over the last few months through Aadhaar, the CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ajay Bhushan Pandey, said. |
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