UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said the top court's verdict on privacy has no bearing on the requirement for taxpayers to link their Aadhaar with PAN by month-end
Ravi Shankar Prasad that with the help of Aadhaar, the government has managed to curb the duplicity and has saved crores with the decision of linking Aadhar with bank accounts.
As per the provisions of Sections 27 and 28, a person's Aadhaar can be cancelled or deactivated if multiple Aadhaars have been issued, or there are discrepancies in the biometric data or supporting documents.
According to a report in Economic Times, the government feels that the Permanent Account Number (PAN) may not be enough to plug tax leaks.
UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said that Aadhaar is a technology for people's empowerment and not a tool for exclusion or denial
The statement comes on a day the home ministry made the Aadhaar number mandatory for registration of death with effect from October 1, 2017.
Applicants unaware of the Aadhaar number or Enrolment ID of the deceased will be required to provide a certificate that the deceased person does not possess Aadhaar number to the best of their knowledge
The Supreme Court today said that there has to be "overarching" guidelines to protect an individual's private information in public domain to ensure that it was used only for an intended purpose
The deadline was extended after some complaints that the taxpayers are not being able to log on to the e-filing website of Income Tax Department or not being able to link Aadhaar with PAN.
The government has no plans to make Aadhaar number mandatory for booking air tickets, Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs has been told
Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that since privacy was multifaceted, it could not be treated as a fundamental right.
The Centre on Wednesday conceded in the Supreme Court that right to privacy may be considered as a fundamental right under the Constitution, but many facets relating to it cannot be put under the fundamental rights category
Simplifying the passport rules for Indian citizens further, the government informed the Parliament that it has done away with the mandatory furnishing of birth certificate to get a passport
A large proportion of taxpayers filed their returns manually, via snail mail, rather than getting an Aadhaar card. Several others filed their returns online early, before June 30, when the Aadhaar linkage was not compulsory
Supreme Court's 9-judge Constitution bench is hearing to determine whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution.
About 210 websites of the central and state government departments were found to be displaying personal details and Aadhaar numbers of beneficiaries, the government informed the Parliament today.
A nine-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court today began hearing arguments to determine whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution.
The bench will decide whether right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution and whether Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique idenitification number invades the right to privacy
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