Banks, telcos could be allowed to use Aadhaar, says Jaitley

Supreme Court declared constitutional the government's extraordinary attempt to give every resident a biometric ID.

Aadhaar: What needs to be linked, what does not

The Supreme Court brought out the list of services for which biometric ID Aadhaar needs to be mandatorily linked.

TRAI chief was quick to add that intention behind disclosure of his 12-digit number was never to abet others disclose their Aadhaar numbers.

UIDAI had in July last year asked private as well as public sector banks to set up Aadhaar facility.

The new QR code, that now comes with photo, can be used in offline mode in a way that will safeguard against any tempering of documents.

This is the third extension given by the govt to individuals to link the PAN with the biometric ID.