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Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI)

UIDAI

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”) on 12 July 2016 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The Aadhaar Act 2016 has been amended by the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 (14 of 2019) w.e.f. 25.07.2019.

UIDAI was created to issue Unique Identification numbers (UID), named as "Aadhaar", to all residents of India. The UID had to be (a) robust enough to eliminate duplicate and fake identities, and (b) verifiable and authenticable in an easy, cost-effective way. As on 31 March 21, the Authority has issued 128.99 crore Aadhaar numbers to the residents of India.

Under the Aadhaar Act 2016, UIDAI is responsible for Aadhaar enrolment and authentication, including operation and management of all stages of Aadhaar life cycle, developing the policy, procedure, and system for issuing Aadhaar numbers to individuals and perform authentication and the security of identity information and authentication records of individuals. To know more about UIDAI search here ( Source: https://uidai.gov.in)

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20 Aadhaar Card Related Services

1 Download Aadhaar Card

https://eaadhaar.uidai.gov.in/

Download an electronic copy of your Aadhaar. It will be available in a password protected PDF file.

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-aadhaar

2. Check Aadhaar Status

Check if your Aadhaar is generated or updated (In case you have updated at an Enrolment/Update center).

You will require EID (Enrolment ID) to check your Aadhaar Status. The EID is displayed on the top of your enrolment/update acknowledgement slip and contains 14 digit enrolment number (1234/12345/12345) and the 14 digit date and time (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss) of enrolment. These 28 digits together form your Enrolment ID (EID).

In case if you lost EID you can retrieve lost or forgotten EID by your registered mobile number.

https://appointments.uidai.gov.in/easearch.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

3. Locate an Enrolment / Update center near you.

In order to enrol for Aadhaar for yourself or for your family member, you will be required to visit an Aadhaar Enrolment Center. In case your Demographic details (Name, Address, DoB, Gender, Mobile Number, Email)is not up-to-date in your Aadhaar, you can get the same updated by visiting an Aadhaar Enrolment Center. Aadhaar holders children( who have turned 15) or others in need of updating Biometrcis details - Finger Prints, Iris & Photograph are required to visit an Enrolment center too. Please get valid Address proof documents.

4. Book an Appointment.

This facility (pilot) is for booking an appointment at an Aadhaar Seva Kendra for Aadhaar services listed below:

● Fresh Aadhaar enrolment

● Name Update

● Address Update

● Mobile No. Update

● Email ID Update

● Date of Birth Update

● Gender Update

● Biometric (Photo + Fingerprints + Iris) Update

https://appointments.uidai.gov.in/bookappointment.aspx

5. Retrieve Lost or Forgotten EID/UID

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/lost-uideid

6. Order Aadhaar Reprint

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/order-reprint

7. Check Aadhaar Reprint Status

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-reprint-status

8 Check Aadhaar status

Check if your Aadhaar is generated or updated (In case you have updated at an Enrolment/Update center

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-aadhaar

9.Update your Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Address and Language Online.https://ssup.uidai.gov.in/ssup/

10. Request for Address Validation Letter

In the absence of document proof, you can update your address(where you are presently residing) in your Aadhaar with the consent and authentication of the address verifier (a family member, relative, friends, landlord) who is willing to let you use their address as proof.

https://ssup.uidai.gov.in/ssupAddressPin/pinGenerate.html

11. Check Update Status

Check status of your online address update request using URN. You can also check status of your Address Validation Letter request by using SRN

https://ssup.uidai.gov.in/checkSSUPStatus/checkupdatestatus

12. Check your Aadhaar Update History

Enter your 12 digit Aadhaar number or 16 digit Virtual ID to begin

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/aadhaar-updatehistory

13. Verify An Aadhaar Number

Here you can check if your Aadhaar or Aadhaar submitted to you is a genuine one or not. Resident’s are using this service to verify the identity of their workers.

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/verify

14. Check your Email/ Mobile Number in Aadhaar:

You can verify your email address and mobile number that has been declared at the time of enrolment or during latest Aadhaar detail update..Registered Mobile Number is essential to avail Aadhaar Online services. In case your mobile number is not registered with your Aadhaar, visit the nearest Permanent Aadhaar Centre(PAC).

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/verify-email-mobile

15. Generate / Retrieve Virtual ID

VID is a temporary, revocable 16-digit random number mapped with the Aadhaar number. VID can be used in lieu of Aadhaar number whenever authentication or e-KYC services are performed. Authentication may be performed using VID in a manner similar to using Aadhaar number. It is not possible to derive Aadhaar number from VID.

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/vid-generation

16.Check Aadhaar Bank Linking Status

Check your Aadhaar and Bank Account Linking Status in NPCI mapper.

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/bank-mapper

17. Lock/Unlock Biometrics

This Feature will enable Resident to lock and temporarily unlock their biometrics. This is to protect privacy and confidentiality of Resident's Biometrics Data (includes fingerprint and iris). Locked Biometrics ensure the Aadhaar holder will not be able to use their Biometrics for authentications.

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/bio-lock

18. Aadhaar Lock and Unlock Service

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/aadhaar-lockunlock

19. Aadhaar Authentication History

https://resident.uidai.gov.in/aadhaar-auth-history

20. Aadhaar Services on SMS

https://uidai.gov.in/my-aadhaar/avail-aadhaar-services/aadhaar-services-on-sms.html

TUTORIAL: What is EID/URN/SRN in terms of Aadhaar?

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Watch this video to know what is EID (Enrolment ID), URN (Update Request Number, or SRN (Service Request Number) in relation to your Aadhaar. Use the EID/URN/SRN to check the status of your Aadhaar Request from https://uidai.gov.in/ or mAadhaar app Important Links:
1. Check Aadhaar status from (use your EID): https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-a...
2. Check Aadhaar Update status (use 28 digit URN): https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-a...
3. Check online Address update status (use 14 digit URN and Aadhaar Number): https://ssup.uidai.gov.in/checkSSUPSt...
4. Check order Aadhaar reprint status (use SRN): https://resident.uidai.gov.in/check-r.

TUTORIAL: Order Aadhaar PVC Card

Watch this video to understand the process of ordering the Aadhaar PVC card. Aadhaar PVC card is durable and easy-to-carry. It also features a secure QR code, Guilloche Pattern, hologram, along with ghost image and micro text on it.
It is a paid service for which you'll be charged INR 50.

Digital India Videos

India Goes Digital

Digital India is a great concept. Its purpose is DIGITIZING our interactions with the government. It aims to transform governance by adopting digital technologies. A digital government can deliver citizen services electronically and online.

Digital India Technologies

The main digital technologies deployed are cloud computing , mobile technology and the Internet .

Digital India Described

Digital India is a brand name denoting a series of e-governance projects undertaken by various government since the 1990s. E-governance projects in the past were undertaken in different departments and in isolation. Digital India consolidates all such projects and takes them further in unison.

India before Digital India

Before the advent of digital India, citizen services were brick and mortar modelled -

paper based- ration card, marks card..
office bound- visit office to get service/document/ticket
Local- documents are valid locally - Gas connection
involved physical cash -
demanded citizen presence for availing service - senior citizen has to go to bank every year to get living certificate,
required wet signature or thumb impression for agreements or acknowledgements.

Aadhaar | Resident Unique Identity Number

Digital India has provided each resident a unique 12 digit number called Aadhaar. It is verifiable online and anywhere and any time. Aadhaar is a cradle to grave resident identity number. It is given to the resident after collection of demographic and biometric features and subjecting it to deduplication to establish the resident's uniqueness. As of now more than 1.3 billion Indian residents have been given Aadhaar numbers.

e-Sign

A resident can attach a legally valid electronic signature to a document and share a signed document with others. e-Sign feature is integrated into the Digilocker system and residents can esign documents within it . This overcomes the need for wet signature

UPI

Unified payment interface (UPI) is a single interface to all national banks and online wallets. This enables residents to go cashless in transactions. Applications such as BHIM are built using UPI.

India becomes Digital India

Using the above fundamental services, citizen services are delivered electronically and online.

Service Layers of Digital India

On digital India platform , each of the above systems is built and operated as a seperate layer. These layers are called 1. Presence-less layer, 2. Paperless layer, 3. Cashless layer and 4. Consent layer

Digital India citizen services are presenceless

The presenceless layer is an online resident identity system using Aadhaar number and biometrics. This is called presence-less because a resident can prove his/her identity online.

Digital India has provided each resident a unique 12 digit number called Aadhaar. It is verifiable online and anywhere and any time. This enables resident to avail service without being present in-person.

Example: A senior citizen can get Jeevan Pramaan certificate from nearest cyber center and submit to bank online.

A resident can book an appointment in a hospital online

Digital India | Citizens are empowered with Consent Layer

The consent layer aims to maintain security and control of personal data. It is a system which allows users to digitally share their data with service providers in exchange for easier access to credit, insurance and other services. When fully operational, this could bring a big change in the way businesses, individuals, services providers and others use digital data in their day-to-day operations.

The Digital Indian

A resident or citizen who uses digital India system resources in daily life is called a digital indian, A digital India has Aadhaar number and uses it as primary means of establishing his identity in his business and social interactions. He has created an account on Digilocker. He pulls government issued documents to his digilocker account and may have uploaded his personal docs to digilicker. He shows documents in digilocker as and when authorities demand for that ( railway, traffic ) and shares them electronically from his account. He uses UPI enabled payment systems such as BHIM and e-signs documents

Digital India Institution

An institution can become a complete digital India institute. Firstly, it has to onboard it's service seekers using Aadhaar authentication. It has procure required document through service seekers digilocker account. It collects service charges using an UPI enabled service. It e-signs service agreements and offers and shares via digilocker. It issues documents to Digilocker accounts to be pulled by service seekers.

Baal Aadhaar : Aadhaar for Children below the age of 5 Years

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Since 2018, The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been issuing a coloured Aadhaar card for children aged below five years. The Aadhaar will require a mandatory biometric update when a child becomes five year old.

A child below 5 years of age gets a blue in coloured Aadhaar known as Baal Aadhaar. When the child becomes 5 yr old, a mandatory biometric update is required

The Bala Aadhaar will require another mandatory biometric update when the child attains the age of 15.

Photo ID cards issued by child's school can be used for his/her Aadhaar enrolment. one can use your child's school ID (Photo ID issued by Recognized Educational Institution) for his/ her Aadhaar enrolment

Some facts about coloured Baal Aadhaar:

1. Blue coloured Aadhaar does not include child's biometric information.

2. The first mandatory biometric update is required at the age of five to include child's biometric information like fingerprints and iris scan.

3. The second mandatory biometric update is required at the age of 15.

4. Besides school photo ID card, child's birth certificate and a mobile number will also be required for enrolment

The Importance of Citizen Identity ( Foundational Identity)

The Importance of Citizen Identity

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The need to prove who we are and where we live is a recurring requirement in our life. When we travel by train we need to prove that you are the same person whom the travel ticket is booked, when you go to the bank to open a new account, you need to prove your place of residence. In many developing countries individuals do not have documents to prove their identity. This prevents them from accessing services provided by both the private and public sectors. Until 2009, even India had this problem: no universal citizen identity document.

Before 2009 , in India, a ration card, which is issued to households and lists the members of the household, is perhaps the most ubiquitous form of identification. This allows certain households, particularly the poor, to access subsidised grains, sugar, kerosene and LPG gas through the public distribution system. Financial inclusion also requires identification or what banks call the KYC (know your customer) credentials.

The ration card may be ubiquitous but it is not universal in that not every household in India has one. India has a population of about 1.22 billion people, 29% of whom live below the poverty line. In 2008, 20% of those living below the poverty line did not have ration cards. In addition, corruption and fraud are rampant in 2016, the government found 21.6 million fraudulent ration cards.

The Advent of Aadhaar

Aadhaar, which means foundation in Hindi, is the foundation of the India Stack. The intent of the program, which was initiated in 2009, is to eliminate the inefficiencies in the public distribution system as well as to facilitate the disbursement of cash transfers directly from the government to the intended beneficiaries, cutting out middlemen.

Aadhaar is an identity program for all residents of India and despite its opt-in nature, about 1.12 billion have Aadhaar identity cards today. The 12-digit card number is linked to an individual's biometric and basic demographic data including a photograph, iris scans, fingerprints, name, address, date of birth and gender. The Aadhaar number can be used in combination with any of these factors' for multi-factor authentication. The Aadhaar database containing all of this information is the largest biometric database in the world and was built using internet-scale technology. It is important to note that Aadhaar is purely an identification tool, so having an Aadhaarcard affords no privileges to an individual; unlike a driver's license for example, which allows one to drive. The goal, therefore, is to build an identity platform and allow others to build an ecosystem around it, or link services to it. The Aadhaar database can be queried (or pinged) by a bank to verify a person's identity: Is this person who they say they are? the database returns a binary (yes/no) response to the query.

The other layers in the India Stack interact with the identity (Aadhaar) layer to facilitate digitisation. Document or credential issuers can send digital documents such as birth certificates, degrees and diplomas, driver's licenses and digital medical records to the digital locker which can then be used by an individual (using the consent layer) to share documents with those who may demand them such as health insurance providers. This removes paper from the system as well as fraudulent documents. The identity layer is called presence-less because the other layers allow for an eKYC an individual could use their mobile phone to provide their Aadhaar number to a service provider and allow them to access their demographic data from the Aadhaar database.

The cashless layer facilitates mobile payments. The Immediate Payment System (IMPS) provides an immediate (and 24x7) interbank funds transfer service through mobile phones using a mobile money identifier linked to a bank account. The Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is built on IMPS and is an open source platform which uses a single virtual identifier that may be linked to multiple bank accounts as well as mobile wallets. In other words, it solves the problem of closed networks; masks customer account details; provides immediate credit and debit payments. The UPI feature set puts India ahead of countries such as the United Kingdom (Faster Payments Scheme) and Singapore (FAST). In these countries, immediate payment systems presently only accommodate push payments (or credits) through an internet banking interface and do not mask customer bank account details.

The India Stack sets up most of the infrastructure required for India's digital transformation. It provides secure identification to nearly all Indian residents hence eliminating a basic barrier to financial inclusion. It reduces transactions costs as well as fraud and paperwork. However, since it is a platform infrastructure, it's up to the private sector and the central and state governments to use the open APIs (application programming interfaces) to find use cases and build applications which utilise the platform. This is gathering pace - with Telcos and the financial sector leading the charge.

DEPA and Account Aggregators: The Future of Personal Data Sharing

Aaryaman Vir is an entrepreneur and a Venture Capitalist (VC). He is the co-founder of Elemential Labs, a blockchain startup, and a micro-VC firm Prophetic Ventures. He is also volunteering with the iSPIRT Foundation to create the Account Aggregator (AA) framework which has the potential to transform the way we share data by giving us more control through the Data Protection and Empowerment Architecture (DEPA). The iSPIRT Foundation is the force behind the success of breakthrough innovations in India like Aadhaar and the UPI. It is also leading the country towards a more secure digital world by advocating for the Personal Data Protection Bill. 00:00

1:02 Becoming A Part Of India’s Tech Story: Aaryaman starts out by talking about his journey as an entrepreneur and his desire to be a part of India’s tech story. After completing his graduation from the US, he returns to India and joins a startup called Haptik. Falling in love with technology, he ventures out to start Elemential Labs, which was one of the first startups in the blockchain technology space. However, his thirst for knowledge and learning drives him to start a micro-VC firm Prophetic Ventures.

4:56 The iSPIRT Foundation: The iSPIRT Foundation has been involved in projects like Aadhar and UPIs. Being aware of iSPIRT’s role in the Indian fintech landscape, Aaryaman met the volunteers of the foundation with regards to learning about their work and looking for ways to collaborate with them. It was during this meeting that he first learnt about the new Account Aggregator framework. He could immediately see the potential of this framework and wanted to learn more about it. By digging deep into the topic, he wrote a blog post describing the vast potential of this framework in terms of data sharing and data privacy for the users.
7:22 Financial Inclusion - Aadhar, UPI and AAs: Solving the problem of financial inclusion in India, first the Aadhar was introduced to help Indians get bank accounts, then the UPI was launched to help them access financial services through digital payments to make them a part of the digital economy. AAs are a part of the bigger plan to help these users to access loans at nominal rates from institutional lenders like NBFCs and Banks. The AA framework is designed to help users to share their data in a completely secure manner.

11:27 What Is DEPA?: DEPA is designed to accommodate the AAs which will remove all the security hazards and considerably ease the lending process for the banks and NBFCs. This will also help the borrowers who do not have collateral or a credit score to access loans from banks by enabling the banks to securely access their credit history and their creditworthiness.

14:56 The Personal Data Protection Bill: India a leading the way for personal data privacy by introducing the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 that will empower the individual by providing rights like right to confirmation and access, right to correction and erase, right to data portability and right to be forgotten. These rights will be crucial in the digital economy where data is the new currency. RBI is already working in the direction by working with organizations like iSPIRT to provide the right to data portability through the AA framework.

20:20 What Is An Account Aggregator: The Account Aggregator framework will be a lot similar to the UPI framework wherein users make digital payments by connecting their bank account to their UPI ID and then using that ID to make payments on different platforms. In the same way, the entities (Account Aggregators) that will be approved by the RBI will be able to connect different bank accounts using a single ID which can be used by users to share their financial data securely to other banks and NBFCs. The best thing about this framework is that the users can choose the data they want to share and the period of time they want their data to be used, giving them more control over their personal data and privacy.

25:57 How Will Banks React To AAs?: Account Aggregators like the UPI players in the country will offer benefits for banks and provide them with access to more customers and data. This, in turn, will help them to create more customized products and services.

Can I update my address in Aadhaar in my Local Language ?

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What are the benefits of AePS?

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