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Indian Government Launches Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery

The Indian Prime Minister launched Aadhaar enabled service delivery platform, on Saturday,  enabling citizens to use the Aadhaar identity platform to identify and authenticate themselves for delivery of benefits/services by various government or private agencies. Following the move, the Indian government will roll out Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery initiatives in 51 districts across the country, and these services will be linked to various government schemes such as MNREGA(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) wage payments, PDS distribution, payment of social security benefits such as old-age payments, distribution of LPG cylinders, among others. According to a statement from the government, a number of state governments are already ready to roll out these initiatives. The government also announced that currently 23 crore residents have enrolled for an Aadhaar number, while 21 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued, in a span of two years. State governments and agencies have been conducting pilots for selected services through Aadhaar. Banks are already accepting Aadhar number as a valid KYC (Know your Customer) document. Private entities including DTH operator Dish TV, and mobile operator, Vodafone are also accepting Aadhaar for customer verification. According to a Hindu BusinessLine report, Airtel is also keen to start a similar project in Delhi, and that the Department of Telecommunication is studying whether Aadhaar can be used for address verification for mobile connections. Launch of Aadhaar e-KYC powered prepaid cards: Speaking at the #NAMA conference, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of UIDAI, had recently announced the launch of Aadhar E-KYC powered instant prepaid accounts, for which a pilot project was to be conducted in New Delhi. He…

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