News for aspirants who want to get into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT): Students appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) will now have to have an Aadhaar card issued by the UIDAI. "At the time of filling application form of JEE (Main) - 2017, the candidates will have to enter their Aadhaar number, name, date of birth & gender which will be validated with the UIDAI’s data," a notice on the JEE website said. It added that if the above particulars do not match on the UIDAI's database, the candidates will not be able to fill the application form for JEE 2017. It also advised students to correct mismatches in school records and the UIDAI database to make sure that they can apply for the examination. Similarly, in September, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education made it compulsory for students appearing for board exams to display the Aadhaar card at the time of registration. Meanwhile, last month, The Hindu reported that every student in Karnataka will have an Aadhaar card. The Department of Primary and Secondary Education decided to make the card mandatory for all students in government, aided and private unaided schools, as well as pre-university colleges. Note that Aadhaar is being made mandatory for many services after Parliament passed the Aadhaar Act in March. However, the government is at loggerheads with the Supreme Court (SC) which said that it cannot be made mandatory for services. In September, the SC bolstered…
