Govt amends Aadhaar rules; supporting documents need to be updated in 10 years

The government has amended Aadhaar regulations specifying that supporting documents need to be updated at least once by Aadhaar holders on completion of 10 years from enrolment dateThe updation would ensure continued accuracy of Aadhaarrelated information in the Central Identities Data Repository CIDR according to gazette notification issued by Ministry of Electronics and ITAadhaar number holders may on completion of every 10 years from the date of enrolment for Aadhaar update their supporting documents in Aadhaar at least once by submitting Proof of Identity POI and Proof of Address POA documentsso as to ensure continued accuracy of their information in the CIDR in such manner as may be specified by the Authority from time to time it saidThe changes have been made by tweaking the Aadhaar Enrolment and Update RegulationsLast month the Unique Identification Authority of India UIDAI the government agency that issues Aadhaar numbers had urged people to update identification and residence proof documents if they were issued the unique ID more than 10 years back but had not updated their details since thenAccordingly to provide facility to Aadhaar holders in this regard the UIDAI has developed a new feature of update document This feature can be accessed online through the myAadhaar portal and myAadhaar app or residents can visit any Aadhaar enrolment centre to avail of the facilityThe new feature permits Aadhaar number holders to revalidate details by updating the POI containing name and photo and POA containing name and address documentsAlso Read Supreme Court to examine plea challenging Centres decision to link electoral roll data with AadhaarWhile 134 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued till date just how many Aadhaar holders will have to update their information after UIDAIs latest move is not known immediatelyLast year about 16 crore updates of various kinds took placeIn a statement issued last month UIDAI had said Any person who had got their Aadhaar made 10 years back and not updated the information in any of the subsequent years are being requested to do document updationUIDAI had strongly encouraged people to come forward to update their documents citing the benefits of doing so more than 1000 state and central government schemes leverage Aadhaar for identification and authentication of beneficiaries transfer of benefits and ensuring deduplicationOf these nearly 650 schemes are of state governments and 315 of central government all of which use the Aadhaar ecosystem and its biometric authenticationThe updation drive initiated now for Aadhaar issued 10 years back relates to the updation of demographic information and do not involve biometric update A call on the biometric update will be considered if and when the need arises a government source had earlier saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever