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Whether intermediaries are required to carry out in-person verification (IPV) of the client, if KYC verification of the client is carried out through Aadhaar based e-KYC service offered by UIDAI as per the aforementioned SEBI Circular?
A major milestone has been crossed with ten (10) crore Aadhaar numbers having been linked to bank accounts of Aadhaar holders so far a part of Government’s Digital India mission. This would enable these individuals to digitally receive government welfare subsidies and other payments directly into their bank accounts, in a hassle-free manner.
The Income Tax Department will now accept Aadhaar Card as proof of identity and address for issuance of Permanent Account Number (PAN). The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued NOTIFICATION NO. 96/2013 Dated: December 23, 2013 expanding the list of documents admissible as proof of identity and address by including Aadhaar Card.
The Unique Identification Authority of India, UIDAI, has asserted that its system is reliable and can achieve the task of providing unique ID cards to the entire population of the country. It dispelled fears that the biometric technology being employed for the Aadhaar project is flawed.
The Home Ministry has a proposal to issue every adult resident in the country an identity card. The Government has decided to create a National Population Register (NPR) by collecting information on specific characteristics of all usual residents in the country.
The terms of reference of the Task Force under the Chairmanship of Shri Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been expended to include an Aadhaar-enabled unified payment infrastructure. The said Task Force was constituted by the Ministry of Finance in February 2011 to recommend and implement a solution for direct transfer of subsidies on Kerosene, LPG and Fertilizer to the intended beneficiaries.
In just nine months since the launch of the Aadhaar project in Maharashtra, UIDAI has issued one crore Aadhaar numbers. 52 year old, NK Chheda from Maharashtra has the distinction of being the resident whose Aadhaar number was generated on reaching this milestone. Coincidentally, the first resident to get the Aadhaar number, Ranjana Sonawane, is also a resident of Maharashtra. She received her number on 29th September, 2010 in Tembhli village of Nandurbar district.
Applicants for new domestic LPG cooking gas connections can now produce the letters of allotment of Aadhaar numbers issued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as proof of identity and proof of address. State-owned fuel retailers have advised their ‘LPG distributors to include the letter of issue of Aadhaar numbers with photograph and address issued by UIDAI as proof of identify and address for release of new LPG connections,’ Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum said in identical press statements here.
Amid rising instances of debit and credit card frauds, an RBI panel has recommended that banks should put in place secure systems to check such cases within a year’s time. All acquirers and issuers may put in place adequate fraud risk management systems and processes [within] 12 months, said the panel in its recommendations for an action plan to implement additional authentication for all card transactions.
With a mammoth exercise on to issue an Aadhar number to each of India’s 1.2 billion citizens and interested residents, IANS tracks the process involved for getting what will become a unique identity for people in India to access all public or private services.
