Assam CM announces Aadhaar Cards for over 9.35 lakh deprived residentsDeputy Director General of RGI, Biswajit Das, said, “Keeping the purpose and intent of the Aadhaar Act in mind and following the view of th...
Aadhaar card 'not' proof of citizenship or domicile, says UIDAI in HC. Here's whyIn Calcutta HC, Joint Forum against NRC challenges Aadhaar Act 2023 regulation 28A. UIDAI counsel Gupta, Justices Sivagnanam, Bhattacharyya...
File interlocutory application before Supreme Court with respect to biometrics issues: Bharatiya Gorkha ParisanghA cabinet subcommittee was formed to look into the problem of people whose names were not included in the supplementary list National Regis...
UIDAI to encourage people to update their Aadhaar biometrics every 10 years: Official"UIDAI will encourage people to update their biometrics, demographics etc once in 10 years. Over time, it will push people to update Aadhaa...
Linking Aadhaar number with voters’ information is purely voluntary: Assam Chief Electoral Officer Nitin KhadeECI has directed the state election office to launch a campaign on Aadhar linkage on August 1. Aadhar coverage in Assam is low as the proce...
Biometric details locked and no Aadhaar: 27 lakh Assamese people stare at uncertain futureThe reason is that the NRC has taken biometric prints of several citizens for verification. However, because their biometric prints have be...
Aadhar enrolment for NRC applicants who provided biometrics to be decided by Centre, says ministerReplying to a question of MLa Ashraful Hussain, Dass said that NRC updation is being monitored by the Supreme court of India and if a perso...
Assam CM asks deputy Commissioners to complete Aadhaar enrollment exercise by August 31The official order stated, “In view of the various beneficiary schemes being introduced by the Government of India and Government of Assam ...
Biometric details locked, can’t have Aadhaar; blame it on NRCThose who already have Aadhaar are able to avail of the benefits of welfare schemes. But Aadhaar coverage is low in Assam compared with the...
Assam government asks Centre to unlock biometric detailsAssam government has written to the Centre urging it to unlock the biometric details of about 38 lakh individuals, who had appeared for the...
NRC coordinator urges Assam government to unlock biometric details of 3.8 millionAbout 3.6 million people have put in claims for inclusion while nearly 200,000 people registered their objections. These people were called...
Authorities in Assam talking to UIDAI for secure NRC dataThe Supreme Court, which is monitoring the NRC update process in Assam, had in August last year ordered the authorities to implement an Aad...
National Population Register to include Aadhaar detailsRegistrar General of India will ask UIDAI to verify biometric data of individuals.
Draft NRC left-outs to get UIDAI tools for biometric profilingAssam’s State Aadhaar Implementation Committee, headed by Chief Secretary TY Das, has worked out a detailed plan for Aadhaar enrolment. In ...
NRC: Separate biometrics if citizenship is contestedThe SOP would be followed only if the top court vets it at the next hearing. It was submitted to the court on Tuesday and will be examined ...
Bengal among worst defaulters in NRC verificationOther big defaulters were Bihar, Chandigarh, Manipur and Meghalaya, which returned just 2 to 7% of the documents after verification.
Supreme Court refuses Assam EC plea to divert NRC staff for poll dutyThe bench, which has overseen the exercise closely, had at the last hearing ignored a plea by the state to call off the exercise in the run...