{"id":313271,"date":"2019-06-13T05:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313271"},"modified":"2019-06-13T05:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T05:11:11","slug":"cabinet-approves-bill-for-making-aadhaar-people-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-approves-bill-for-making-aadhaar-people-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves bill for making Aadhaar people friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312795 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cabinet-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-696x449.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-651x420.jpg 651w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a major move aimed at making Aadhaar people friendly, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved \u201cThe Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019\u201d to replace the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe amendments proposed are the same as those contained in the Ordinance promulgated by President on March 2.\u00a0 The Bill will be introduced in ensuing session of Parliament, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe decision would enable UIDAI to have a more robust mechanism to serve the public interest and restrain the misuse of Aadhar.\u00a0Subsequent to this amendment, no individual shall be compelled to provide proof of possession of Aadhaar number or undergo authentication for the purpose of establishing his identity unless it is so provided by a law made by Parliament.\u00a0For the convenience of general public in opening of bank accounts, the proposed amendments would allow the use of Aadhaar number for authentication on voluntary basis as acceptable KYC document under the Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to release, the salient features of the amendments are as follows\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Provides for voluntary use of Aadhaar number in physical or electronic form by authentication or offline verification with the consent of Aadhaar\u00a0number holder;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Provides for use of twelve-digit Aadhaar number and its alternative virtual identity to conceal the actual Aadhaar number of an individual;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gives an option to children who are Aadhaar number holders to cancel their Aadhaar number on attaining the age of eighteen years;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Permits the entities to perform authentication only when they are compliant with the standards of privacy and security specified by the Authority; and the authentication is permitted under any law made by Parliament or is prescribed to be in the interest of State by the Central Government;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Allows the use of Aadhaar number for authentication on voluntary basis as acceptable KYC document under the Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Proposes deletion of section 57 of the Aadhaar Act relating to use of Aadhaar by private entities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prevents denial of services for refusing to, or being unable to, undergo authentication;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Provides for establishment of Unique Identification Authority of India Fund;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Provides for civil penalties, its adjudication, appeal thereof in regard to violations of Aadhaar Act and provisions by entities in the Aadhaar ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 was considered by the Cabinet in its meeting held on February 28, 2019 and the Ordinance was promulgated by the President on\u00a0March 2, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 amongst other things envisaged strengthening of the Aadhaar Act as per the directions of the Supreme Court and recommendations of Justice B.N.Srikrishna(Retd)\u00a0 Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major move aimed at making Aadhaar people friendly, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved \u201cThe Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019\u201d to replace the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019. \u201cThe amendments proposed are the same as those contained in the Ordinance promulgated by President on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[175,10718,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313278,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313271\/revisions\/313278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}