UIDAI approves Voluntary Use of Aadhaar for National Populations Register

Recently, UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has given its nod for “voluntary” use of 12-digit unique numbers for compilation of National Population Register (NPR).

Implications

  • The NPR updation exercise will be undertaken alongside house listing phase of Census 2021 and will for the first time collect several particulars such as Aadhaar, mobile number, PAN, driving license, Voter ID details and Indian Passport numbers from all usual residents of India.
  • Once Aadhaar details are included, the NPR database would contain demographic as well as biometric particulars. There are 15 different categories of demographic data, ranging from name and place ....
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