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Home/Current Affairs/Aadhaar Card is Not Proof of Citizenship and Date of Birth

Aadhaar Card is Not Proof of Citizenship and Date of Birth

27 Jan 2024

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New Aadhaar cards now come with an explicit disclaimer of it being a proof of identity and not of citizenship or date of birth.

  • Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), in a circular of  January 16, deleted Aadhaar from the list of documents acceptable as a proof of date of birth.

Aadhaar Card

  • About: It is a 12-digit individual identification number that serves as proof of identity and proof of address for residents of India.

Aadhaar Card

  • Issued by:  The UIDAI 

  • Features of Aadhaar Card

    • The Aadhaar number is unique for each individual and will remain valid for a lifetime. 
    • Act as a proof of: Aadhaar is a proof of Identity and Residence
    • Eligibility:   Every Indian citizen irrespective of their age and foreign national is eligible to obtain one if they have been living in India for half a year 
    • Authentication: It uses Demographic and Biometric Data like Iris scan etc.
    • Welfare schemes Enabler: It will help the residents to avail of various services provided by banking, mobile phone connections, PDS, MGNREGA etc
    • Portability: Aadhaar gives nation-wide portability as it can be authenticated anywhere on-line.
    • Open Source Technology: It is built using open source technologies and structured to address scalability in a vendor-neutral manner and allow the coexistence of heterogeneous hardware within the same application.

  • Aadhaar Data

    • Storage: Aadhaar data vault (ADV) as a middleware service and solution developed by C-DAC ensures secure storage of encrypted Aadhaar numbers as per UIDAI guidelines.
    • Period: for not more than 6 months as per Supreme Court Ruling

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) 

  • About: It is a statutory body established under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016.
  • Nodal Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 


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