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The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 is a money bill of the Parliament of India. It aims to provide legal backing to the Aadhaar unique identification number project.
Aadhaar (Hindi: आधार, lit. ' base, foundation ' ) [ 7 ] is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India , based on their biometrics and demographic data. [ 8 ]
Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported. [1] [2] It has been implemented for the state of Assam starting in 2013–2014. [3] The Government of India announced plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021, [4] but it has not yet been implemented.
A five-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which allows private entities to demand Aadhaar to access their services.
In October 2019, cops held 150 illegal Bangladeshi intruders who admitted to having come from Bangladesh by the river. All of them had acquired an Aadhar card, bank passbook, ration card and voter ID cards from India. They pose significant security and terrorism, law and order risk, due to religious activities in the Mathura area.
Various financial and other services are being Aadhaar-enabled, called Aadhaar-enabled Service Delivery (AeSD), in a phased manner. [23] By 1 January 2014, half of India (289 districts across various states) had been covered by DBT for subsidized LPG. By August 2013, 6.3 million duplicate LPG connections were detected by Aadhaar and were cancelled.
India's Aadhar data breach was one of the biggest data breaches in 2018. In early 2018, Indian government's identification database Aadhaar (similar to SSN ) was reported to be leaking information on every registered Indian citizens [ 10 ] including names, bank details and other private information like biometric data. [ 11 ]
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