Author: Sumit Kumar

As per a report by The Times of India, the Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved Rs 2,000 Crores for setting up Aadhaar Centres in the premises of Post Offices across the nation. This step is aimed at phasing out private contractors from data collection process. A number of complaints surfaced where private...

There was a time when a huge chunk of subsidy issued by the government failed to reach the beneficiaries. The flaw was in the system where the majority of these subsidies went untraceable because of corruption. To clean the mess in the system and benefit the actual entity, the government came up with an unbeatable...

In an effort to popularize digital payments in the rural sector of the country, the government has decided to promote the use of Aadhar Pay among the illiterate and poor. Aadhar-enabled Payment System (AEPS) is already in use, and its merchant version Aadhar Pay will use fingerprint feature to validate financial transactions. Unlike other online...

The Aadhaar Card has become one of the most important identity proofs available to an Indian citizen and recently it was made mandatory to link the IT Department's Permanent Account Number (PAN) card with the Aadhaar card. Subsequent to this announcement, many individuals initiated the process only to find that small differences in the spellings...

The Central Government has declared that it has deactivated around 81 lakh Aadhaar cards till date. The announcement was made by the minister of state for Electronics and IT, PP Chaudhary, in the Rajya Sabha. However, UIDAI, the authority responsible for issuance and maintenance of Aadhaar does not have the year-wise, state-wise and reason-wise data...

India is a country of 1.2 billion people where the government provides various social security services and manages other tasks on a very large scale. We have to submit and get various documents verified to avail different services regularly. The paperwork sometimes may be time-consuming and in turn, delay the delivery of services provided by...

Due to the nationwide lockdown, the SBI Card, today launched a video-based KYC (Know Your Customer) feature also known as the VKYC feature. This feature offers a zero contact, simple customer on-boarding procedure, and digital banking experience. However, as per the guidelines of Reserve Bank of India to make the process safe and secure for…

The Government has asked telecom service providers to get their customers’ mobile numbers linked with their Aadhaar by February, 2018. Those numbers that will not be linked with Aadhaar post the deadline will be deactivated. This step is taken in light of the order passed by the Supreme Court in February in the Lokniti Foundation case….