-The Telegraph Guwahati: Apart from Tripura and Sikkim, enrolment for Aadhaar cards remains very low in the northeastern states, with Assam at the bottom of the list. According to figures available with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which handles the Aadhaar project, as on November 30, 2014, the percentage of enrolment against the total population was abysmally low in Assam - 0.3 per cent. The trend is not much better in...
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Aadhaar may be used to curb black money in real estate -Remya Nair, Asit Ranjan Mishra and Madhurima Nandy
-Livemint Finance minister Arun Jaitley says govt is considering making the use of Aadhaar mandatory for real estate transactions New Delhi/Bengaluru: In a move aimed at curbing the use of black money in property deals, the government is considering linking real estate transactions with Aadhaar, the unique identity number. If implemented, the move could provide a trail of all real estate transactions by an individual. It could also potentially solve the problem...
More »Giving new life to Aadhaar
-The Hindu The imperatives of governance have a tendency to make political parties think differently once they are in power and revisit earlier misgivings. Nothing illustrates this better than the Narendra Modi government's decision to go ahead with the ‘Aadhaar' scheme aimed at giving unique identification numbers to residents. The Bharatiya Janata Party had on some occasions in the past voiced its reservations about the viability and desirability of the...
More »Aadhaar has enrolled one –fourth of UP’s residents, Crosses 5 Crore mark
-Press Information Bureau Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has enrolled one-fourth of the Uttar Pradesh population having generated more than five crore Aadhaar numbers against a population of 19.95 Crore of Uttar Pradesh (as per Census 2011). UIDAI crossed the Five Crore mark in Uttar Pradesh this week in its second phase, which was started for residents of Uttar Pradesh through various non-State registrars (Banks, NSDL, et al) and their...
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-Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for Phase-V of the Unique Identification (UID) scheme for undertaking enrolments in the four States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. With this, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been given the target of generation of 100 crore Aadhaars by 2015....
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