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UIDAI mAadhaar app: Now, you can carry your Aadhaar in your smartphone

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The app, available on Google Play Store, is currently limited only for users of Android 5.0 and above LATEST NEWS : The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)  has launched the mAadhaar app , a digital tool that allows holders of Aadhaar numbers to carry their in their smartphones. The app syncs all information available on your Aadhaar, such as demographic details, name, date of birth, gender, postal address and photograph, after you link your Aadhaar with the app. Now that is a convenient way to carry Aadhaar everywhere, all the time. The app also allows you to lock and unlock your biometric data -- a feature that was earlier possible only through the UIDAI web portal. For safety and security reasons, the mAadhaar app uses a two-layer authentication. The app has a Google Authenticator-like one-time password generation tool within the app for this purpose. The OTPs generated by the tool are read by the app automatically; there is no way to enter them ma...

Aadhaar mandatory for school kids too! Visit your bank to speed up process

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Govt has asked states to complete Aadhaar enrollment of school children by August 31 LATEST NEWS :    Centre has asked Karnataka and 15 other states to complete Aadhaar enrollment of school children by August 31 and submit the data to ensure serving of the mid-day meal to them "in a seamless manner." According to Deccan Herald, this comes as the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry observed that many of these 16 States were lagging far behind in completion of the task, with Nagaland having enrolled just 15 percent of 1,59,449 students to Aadhaar. In Karnataka, only 70 percent of the total number of students have so far been enrolled to Aaadhar card . A total of 49,10,765 students enrolled in the Government schools in the State.  “The stipulated date for completing 100% Aadhaar enrollment is August 31, 2017. I earnestly suggest the Aadhaar enrollment campaign be given an added thrust by the Government of Karnataka in a time bound manner,” school ed...