UIDAI enables online identity authentication

• The authority launches three Aadhaar-enabled servicesA
• 300 permanent Aadhaar Kendras to be set up

Venkat Parsa

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) headed by Nandan Nilakani on Friday unveiled three new Aadhaar-enabled services, which would help people to authenticate their identity anytime and anywhere, through the digital platform.

The UIDAI has launched three Aadhaar-enabled services, including e-KYC, OTP (one time pin) authentication and Iris authentication. The third service will enable persons to authenticate identity for availing Aadhaar-enabled services by providing combination of Aadhaar number and Iris image.

The UIDAI has announced establishment of around 300 permanent enrolment centres or Aadhaar Kendras. Number of these Aadhaar Kendras would be scaled up to 1,000 by September this year, it was announced.

Nilekani said, "The centres will facilitate enrolment of residents left out during the camps organised by registrars in the past and also facilitate biometric and demographic update."

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who was present on the occasion, said there could be leakage ranging between 20 to 40 per cent in the present system of delivery of benefits under various schemes and said that these services would help plug them.

The e-KYC service will enable individuals to authorize service providers to receive electronic copy of their proof of identity and address. The e-KYC service can be deployed by different agencies to verify a resident's identity and address.

Under the one-time pin (OTP) and Iris authentication, the UIDAI digital platform would not share demographic details with all. Instead, it would respond in yes or no, to authenticate the identity of the person. The OTP service enables Aadhaar-based authentication of all persons using their mobile telephone anytime, anywhere on a self-service mode, without having to use biometric authentication device.

Only demographic information (name, address, date of birth, gender, photograph & mobile number) that is collected during Aadhaar enrolment will be shared, at the request of, and/or with the consent of the Aadhaar number-holder.A However, the information will be available only for a few seconds to the service-provider, in order to avert any misuse.

Montek re-issued Aadhaar in 1 hr New Delhi (PTI): A casual mention of a lost Aadhaar card in public saw government machinery go on an overdrive and its holder getting a duplicate card in less than an hour.

The beneficiary of this efficiency, an issue over which government departments often faced criticism, was none other than a pleasantly surprised Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Ahluwalia, who was the chief guest at the Aadhaar card issuing authority UIDAI's function on Friday morning, told his audience that he had lost his unique identification card.

But little did he expect that a duplicate card will be handed over to him even before the event concluded, apparently aware that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is bombarded with hundreds of complaints of missing, lost or delayed cards.

Ahluwalia had gone to attend the UIDAI function to launch three new Aadhaar-enabled services which would help residents to authenticate their identity anytime and anywhere through a digital platform.

According to official sources, UIDAI can find out Aadhaar number and generate Aadhaar Card using the mobile number of a resident.