UIDAI and DoT have also said for the first time that they are in the devising an alternative KYC mechanism to issue new SIM cards. read more

The UIDAI clarified that the top court orders state that it cannot keep authentication log for more than six months but the telecom companies have to keep the data as per Aadhaar regulations to resolve grievances of consumers. read more

Offline Aadhaar ID verification now available: UIDAI read more

UIDAI has asked telecom companies to submit plan for discontinuing Aadhaar-based authentication system for mobile SIMs. read more

The Supreme Court, while holding Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid, struck down section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, permitting private entities to avail Aadhaar data. read more

As the five judges on the bench write nuanced judgments on the identity project’s validity, here are some choice excerpts. read more

Retired Karnataka high court judge KS Puttaswamy challenged the decision to make Aadhaar enrolment mandatory for all citizens in 2012. It was the first challenge to Aadhaar. read more

RS Sharma was the director general of UIDAI from 2009 to 2013 before he moved on to the role of the chief secretary of Jharkhand and then served as a secretary in the central government. He is currently the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority... read more

The Supreme Court declared the Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions. read more

UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said the Supreme Court has accepted that there is a legitimate state aim in Aadhaar and it ensures dignity and empowers marginalised sections of the society. read more

The apex Court has supported the inclusive vision of the project first defined in 2009, and upheld its validity read more

Aadhaar was a concept introduced by the Congress-led UPA and implemented across schemes by the BJP-led NDA. The order of the constitution bench should end the debate over Aadhaar’s validity. read more

The Supreme Court Wednesday declared the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid. read more

The Supreme Court said Aadhaar would be mandatory for accessing government services, but also ruled that private corporations could not force customers to hand over their ID cards. read more

Aadhaar is constitutionally fair and gives “dignity to the marginalised”, ruled the Supreme Court on Wednesday, delivering its verdict on a batch of petitions against the unique identification project. But the top court ruled that the order to link all mobile phone connections to Aadhaar was ‘unconstitutional’. The court also held that there was no need to link bank accounts with Aadhaar and isn’t needed for school admissions.

(Arijit Sen / HT Archive)read more