Aadhaar Card Password

If you forget your Aadhaar Card PDF password, then don’t be concerned as your E-Aadhaar PDF password is a combination of the first four letters of your name written in CAPITALS (name as mentioned in the Aadhaar card) and your Year of Birth (in YYYY format).

If your Aadhaar card has been stolen or misplaced you can very easily visit the aforementioned online link and download the same at your comfort and convenience. This downloaded file is called E-Aadhaar card.

A benefit of E-Aadhaar is that it reflects the latest updates of your Aadhaar details. So if you happen to edit any information of the Aadhaar online and then you want your revised Aadhaar card, you need not visit the UIDAI authorized centres to avail your Aadhaar card offline. You can very well download the latest version of your Aadhaar Card Online from anywhere, anytime via the UIDAI website. This online Aadhaar card is called an E-Aadhaar.

Coming to the point of E-Aadhaar again, we know that E-Aadhaar when downloaded is a PDF file which is also password protected for the cardholder’s information protection and security. That password is a combination of the first four letters of your name written in CAPITALS (name as mentioned in the Aadhaar card) and your Year of Birth (in YYYY format).

The Government of India is slowly and steadily integrating and linking all their data and information with the Aadhaar card database. Since Aadhaar is truly unique to an individual, linking it to an individual’s personal, employment and financial profile gives the government and all its functionaries a comprehensive all-round view of an individual. This helps the authorities correctly gauge a person’s profile. Through Aadhaar you can also avail many governmental schemes and subsidies. Let’s go through the various uses of Aadhaar card below:

• Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT): Direct Benefit Transfer schemes in relevance to Aadhaar means that through linking your Aadhaar to your bank accounts, you can get the monetary benefits of any and all government subsidy schemes directly into your bank accounts. These schemes can include public subsidy and unemployment benefit schemes. The schemes under DBT ambit currently include the domestic LPG scheme and the MGNREGS. Recently it was announced that the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna or the Crop Insurance Scheme can also be availed through the Aadhaar-linked bank accounts. Through DBT (Aadhaar linked bank account and subsidy scheme linkage), ghost beneficiaries of public subsidy schemes have been exceptionally excluded to a large extent.
• Biometric Attendance: The Biometric attendance system in our offices can also be linked to our Aadhaar card. This will help in checking late arrival and absenteeism in offices, especially public offices where this seems to be a major problem.  This is also expected to help in disciplining public officers too. If you have your Aadhaar linked to your biometric attendance, it can help you regulate your attendance once such a system is installed in your office. Such a system can help you in your appraisal cycle too as the relevant authorities will have your complete attendance and basic personal profile to know of your good social behaviour as well. This will act as a National Database for government employees.
• Other Uses: Possessing an Aadhaar card is expected to be an obligatory requirement for all Indian Passport holders. It is also suggested that people who possess Aadhaar can get their passports issued within a week or two. It has been reported that the Ministry of External affairs wants to link an individual’s Aadhaar with his/her passport. Moreover, recently the Department of Electronics and Information Technology announced that they were planning to link an individual’s Aadhaar card to their SIM cards. Aadhaar-linked SIM cards are also being sold in the market today. Moreover, the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP), a program initiated by the Election Commission of India aims to link the Elector’s Photo ID card with their Aadhaar no. This system can revolutionize the Indian voting system as it can weed out the fake or duplicate voters and can create an error-free and fool-proof voter identification system in the country.
• Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation of India (EPFO): EPFO, the organization which provides Provident Fund services to Indian employees began linking their Provident Fund accounts to the account holder’s Aadhaar. Also, EPFO has now become a UIDAI registrar as it now has the authority to issue Aadhaar numbers to provident fund subscribers.
• Ration Cards: In states like Telangana, Aadhaar number has also been linked to ration cards so as to prevent duplication of ration cards.

So basically, Aadhaar as the name suggests is expected to take over as a single identity document for all Indian individuals and will then bring seamless uniformity in the system. To enable this with comfort and convenience, the government has brought out a system which lets you access Aadhaar electronically. Through E-Aadhaar you can download your Aadhaar card and then use a combination of the first four letters of your name written in CAPITALS (name as mentioned in the Aadhaar card) and your Year of Birth (in YYYY format) to open the Aadhaar PDF file as that is your Aadhaar card PDF password or simply your Aadhaar card password. Moreover, you can also take a printout of the same.

Q. Is e-Aadhaar equally valid like a physical copy of Aadhaar Card?

A. As per the Aadhaar Act, e-Aadhaar is equally valid like a physical copy of Aadhaar for all purposes.

Q. Do I have to pay a fee to download the e-Aaadhaar?
A. No, you are not required to pay anything to download your e-Aadhaar.

Q. Do I have to submit Aadhaar card password as well when I provide e-Aadhaar at the time of credit card and personal loan application?
A. Yes, you have to provide the Aadhar card password when you apply for credit card or personal loan and provide e-Aadhaar as the proof.