Aadhaar card, Mobile number linking last dates, all you must know; full list here

The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for so many things, including availing the benefits of various social and financial schemes.

By: FE Online | Published: October 17, 2017 5:30 PM

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If you thought that opening a bank account or filing an income tax return are the only few things which require Aadhaar cards now, then think again. The fact is that the government has made Aadhaar mandatory for so many things, including availing the benefits of various social and financial schemes. Not only this, time limits have also been fixed by the government to link one’s Aadhaar number to such things or schemes. For instance, one is required to link one’s Aadhaar with PAN by December 31, 2017. The government has also made Aadhaar mandatory for opening bank accounts as well as for doing financial transactions of Rs 50,000 and above, and all the existing account holders have been asked to submit their Aadhaar numbers to the concerned banks by December 31, 2017, failing which their accounts will become invalid.

Here we are taking a look at the last dates of linking Aadhaar with some of such schemes:

1. Linking of Aadhaar with Mobile Number

Department: Department of Telecommunications

Last date: February 6, 2018

2. Linking of Aadhaar with PAN card

Department: Ministry of Finance

Last date: December 31, 2017

3. Central Sector Scholarship Scheme for College and University Students

Department: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Last Date: December 31, 2017

4. Opening of post office accounts

Department: Ministry of Finance

Last date: December 31, 2017

5. Opening of National Savings Certificate

Department: Ministry of Finance

Last Date: December 31, 2017

6. Opening of Public Provident Fund

Department: Ministry of Finance

Last Date: December 31, 2017

7. Opening of Kisan Vikas Patra

Department: Ministry of Finance

Last Date: December 31, 2017

8. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Department: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Last Date: December 31, 2017

9. Employees’ Pension Scheme

Department: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Last Date: December 31, 2017

10. Availing crop insurance under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Department: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Last Date: December 31, 2017

11. To receive benefits under Incentive Scheme for providing employment to Persons with Disabilities in the Private Sector

Department: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Last Date: October 31, 2017

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Oct 17, 2017 at 7:21 pm
The Supreme Court is yet to take a decision on the validity of Aadhaar and whether the State can compulsorily link Aadhaar to various programs and all financial transactions. On 24 August 2017, a nine-judge Consti-tution Bench of the Supreme Court ruled against the Central Government to declare that privacy is a fundamental right under the Consti-tution of India. The Supreme Court is set to hear peti-tions challenging the validity and other aspects of Aadhaar in the first week of November 2017.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 7:20 pm
A centralized and inter-linked biometric database like Aadhaar will lead to profiling and self-censorship, endangering freedom. Personal data gathered under the Aadhaar program is prone to misuse and surveillance. Aadhaar project has created a vulnerability to identi-ty fraud, even identi-ty theft. Easy harvesting of biometrics traits and publicly-available Aadhaar numbers increase the risk of impersonation, especially online and banking fraud. Centralized databases can be hacked. Biometrics can be cloned, copied and reused. Thus, BIOMETRICS CAN BE FAKED. High-resolution cameras can capture your fingerprints and iris information from a distance. Every eye hospital will have iris images of its patients. So another person can clone your fingerprints and iris images without your knowledge, and the same can be used for authentication. If the Aadhaar scheme is NOT STOPPED by the Supreme Court, the biometric features of Indians will soon be cloned, misused, and even traded.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 7:19 pm
UK’s Biometric ID Database was dismantled. Why the United Kingdom's biometrics-linked National Identi-ty Card project to create a centralized register of sensitive information about residents similar to Aadhaar was scrapped in 2010?? The reasons were the massive threat posed to the privacy of people, the possibility of a surveillance state, the dangers of maintaining such a huge centralized repository of personal information, and the purposes it could be used for, and the dangers of such a centralized database being hacked. The other reasons were the unreliability of such a large-scale biometric verification processes, and the ethics of using biometric identification.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 7:19 pm
The US Social Security Number (SSN) card has NO BIOMETRIC DETAILS, no photograph, no physical description and no birth date. All it does is confirm that a particular number has been issued to a particular name. Instead, a driving license or state ID card is used as an identification for adults. The US government DOES NOT collect the biometric details of its own citizens for the purpose of issuing Social Security Number. The US collects the fingerprints of only those citizens who are involved in any criminal activity (it has nothing to do with SSN), and the citizens of other countries who come to the US.
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