Author: Sumit Kumar

The Central Government has made it mandatory for people to furnish their Aadhaar card for biometric verification when they make deposits in Public Provident Fund (PPF), Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) and schemes of the Post Office. Existing depositors have to get their Aadhaar number seeded with the deposit scheme by 31st December, 2017. As per...

With the increasing number of services being linked to Aadhaar, UIDAI has introduced a mobile application, mAadhaar app, which will act as a soft copy of your original Aadhaar. Android users can download this mobile application from Google Play Store but the iOS users will have to wait for some time. Read further to know process...

Aadhaar card is an identity card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Govt. of India. It contains a QR code which contains all the information of that person including the iris and biometric scan results of the applicant. Many government programmes have been linked with Aadhaar to make subsidy...

The government has asked the banks (both private and public sector) to provide Aadhaar enrolment and update facility within their branches so that the customers can link their bank accounts with Aadhaar by December 31, 2017. Banks are advised to provide this facility in one out of 5-6 nearby branches, since it might be difficult...

The Income Tax Department has extended the deadline for linking PAN and Aadhaar to 31st December. This has come out as a huge relief for all taxpayers who had filed their ITRs before 5th August but were unable to link the two documents till 31st August. The government has taken this step in the light...

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...

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...