Declining to entertain the plea by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and lawyer Reepak Kansal, the bench of Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice S. Abdul Nazir asked them to approach the High Court.
Aadhaar number is a 12-digit random number issued by the UIDAI -- Unique Identification Authority of India-- to the residents of India.
Sharma, who was involved in development of Aadhaar, said that the Supreme Court after lot of deliberations held there is no threat to individual privacy from Aadhaar and despite this judgement many people continue to debate on Aadhaar.
The apex court on September 26 last year had declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
The UIDAI told a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao that using Aadhaar biometrics to identify bodies would be contrary to the Aadhaar Act.
In the interim budget, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced direct income support of Rs 6,000 per year to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to 2 hectare.
The minister for Law, Electronics and Information Technology said, "We are soon going to bring a law which will make it mandatory to link Aadhaar with driving licence."
Delivering his presidential address at the ongoing 106th Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University here, the minister for Law, Electronics and Information Technology said, "We are soon going to bring a law which will make it mandatory to link Aadhaar with driving licence."
In his latest blog-post, Jaitley said that the Aadhaar under the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was "inadequate" because of its contradictions and indecision.
Replying to a written question, Ahir said as per the 2011 census, the population of India is 121,08,54,977.
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Aadhaar issuing body UIDAI has asserted that schools cannot make the 12-digit biometric identifier a pre-condition for student admission and warned that doing so will be against the recent order of the Supreme Court.
The review petition has been filed by one Imtiyaz Ali Palsaniya, who had also filed interim applications when the apex court was examining the validity of the Aadhaar scheme.
The Supreme Court in September had barred mandatory use of 12-digit Aadhaar number by private companies.
A petitioner through his plea, has said his Constitutional rights have been violated due to the negligence of UIDAI.
The own employees of the authority will directly supervise the kendras, the UIDAI sources said.
AEPS is a payment service developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) allowing banks, financial institutions to use 'Aadhaar' number and online UIDAI authentication for transactions through their respective business correspondent service centres.
The step is taken after repeated complaints about doctors not turning up for work. To mainly monitor attendance of permanent staff, the new system will be rolled out.
945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018 out of which over 1 billion data records have been exposed in India, as per the recent findings of the Breach Level Index.
The move comes in the wake of a Supreme Court order declaring the Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid.
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