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MoRTH allows voluntary Aadhaar authentication for license, registration related services

The Road Transport Ministry has allowed Aadhaar-authentication for availing certain contactless services from the Ministry. Making a learner’s license, renewing a driving license, obtaining a duplicate driving license, and vehicle registration application, among other things, can be done via a portal, using Aadhaar-authentication, and won’t require an RTO visit. This authentication is voluntary, the Ministry said. In a gazette notification issued on March 3, the Ministry said that “the use of Aadhaar as identity document simplifies the Government delivery processes, brings in transparency and efficiency, and enables applicants to get their work done directly in a convenient seamless manner, and Aadhaar obviates the need for producing multiple documents to prove one's identity.” The Ministry had issued an order making its intentions of allowing Aadhaar-authentication for certain services known, on January 29, 2021, and had invited comments to a draft notification (which is exactly the same as the finally published version) for 15 days. The Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Rules, 2020, notified by the IT Ministry in August 2020, allow government organisations to carry out Aadhaar authentication for “good governance” activities. In addition to good governance, Aadhaar authentication will also be allowed for the “prevention of dissipation of social welfare benefits” and “enablement of innovation and the spread of knowledge”. The Health Ministry had earlier permitted Aadhaar authentication to create Unique Health Identifiers, under the same rules. Under the rules, any ministry, department or the state government that wants to use Aadhaar-based authentication for any of the three…

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