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Nearly 20 crore Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards will be declared invalid after August 31, 2019, if they are not linked with the holder’s Aadhaar number.
As Parliament has passed the Aadhaar amendment bill for voluntary use of the biometric ID in the private sector, the Ordinance on the issue "does not survive", the Centre informed the Delhi High Court Tuesday. President Ram Nath Kovind had in March given his assent to the Aadhaar Ordinance that allowed voluntary use of Aadhaar as ID proof for obtaining mobile SIM cards and opening bank accounts.
Soon, Aadhaar card can be used to file Income Tax Return. Government of India has proposed Aadhaar-PAN interchangeability to make ITR filing easy and convenient for the general public. Nirmala Sitharaman announced the same in her debut union budget presented Friday.
A bench headed by Justice S A Bobde also issued notice to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) seeking its response on the plea which has also challenged the Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication Services) Regulations, 2019.
Aadhaar Bill: Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will introduce the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to replace an ordinance issued in March this year.The Bill seeks to impose strict penalties for violation of norms for the use of Aadhar and violation of privacy.
In case the name provided on your Aadhaar is different than that on your PAN card, you will not be able to complete the linking process.
Physical Aadhaar card can be used for verification in an offline mode if produced voluntarily, the UIDAI clarified.
The apex court struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which allowed sharing of data with private entities, saying that private entities or individuals cannot avail Aadhaar data for consumer service.
The apex court, however, struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
The judgment wil come nearly six years after the first plea against the unique identification system was filed by retired high court judge KS Puttaswamy.
The tech titan said it will "work towards fixing this in an upcoming release of SetUp wizard which will be made available to OEMs over the next few weeks".
The Minister said that Aadhaar authorities conduct nearly one crore authentications every second.
A Health Ministry release said that ABNHPM guidelines on beneficiary identification very clearly state that people can bring any other valid identity proof approved by the state if they do not have an Aadhaar.
So far, 121.17 crore residents have been enrolled for Aadhaar.
The move comes after the Supreme Court rapped the Centre over using its earlier on ‘mandatory authentication of users’ as a ‘tool’ by asking telecom operators to link their mobile numbers with Aadhaar.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised questions over the government's decision ordering mandatory seeding of mobile numbers with Aadhaar and said its earlier order on mandatory authentication of the users was used as a "tool".
While the government referred to verdicts in two earlier cases relating to privacy and said the top court had then held that privacy was not a fundamental right, the apex court bench said the question of privacy was “irrelevant” in these cases.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who started the arguments for the Centre, urged the Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra to allow Pandey to answer the queries of the court.
In a peculiar case, a human resources manager from Bengaluru today moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the UIDAI to hand him back the biometric data of his late father collected for Aadhaar card.
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