Whether it is Aadhaar-enabled direct fund transfer, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) for last-mile banking, authentications, or e-KYC for identity verification, Aadhaar has been playing an important role in supporting Digital India vision and enabling ease of living for residents.
The Ministry launched eShram portal on August 26, 2021 to create a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers which is seeded with Aadhaar. As on April 21, 2023, over 28.87 crore unorganised workers have registered on eShram portal.
With the aim to make Aadhaar people-friendly and enable ease of living and better access to services for citizens, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed rules to enable Aadhaar authentication by entities other than government ministries and departments.
The Bench of Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Yashwant Varma on Monday asked the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Law in the matter.
"The link should be done now," Union finance minister said, adding that, "If this deadline is over, the amount of fine will increase."
Aadhaar-PAN linking was free till March 31, 2022. A fee of Rs 500 was being imposed since April 1 last year and was later raised to Rs 1,000 from July 1.
The working paper 'Stacking up the Benefits Lessons from India's Digital Journey" said that the core tax administration operations rely heavily on DPI initiatives, where Aadhaar is expected to revolutionize tax administration compliance activities by promoting the consistency of registers
India has developed a world-class digital public infrastructure (DPI) to support its sustainable development goals with its journey having lessons for other countries embarking on their own digital transformation, IMF has said in a working paper, noting that digitalization has supported f
Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday attacked the BJP-led centre over the bank accounts of several MNREGA workers not being linked with Aadhar.
The Central government on Monday allowed the prisons department of the States and Union Territories to perform the Aadhaar authentication of prison inmates.
The artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)-based security mechanism developed in-house is now using a combination of both finger minutia and finger image to check the liveness of the fingerprint captured.
The GNM exam was held at Kasturba College under Govindpura police station limits in the city on Thursday (February 23). The accused girl was writing the exam by wearing a face mask on which, the invigilator suspected that the student and checked the photographs on the Aadhaar card and the ad