An estimated 1.2 billion people, or more than 90 per cent of the country’s population, had the 12-digit number, according to the report
Current Affairs News:More than 75 percent of school-age kids in five states were required to give their Aadhaar- – a 12-digit, biometric-based, exceptional personality number- – for school enrolment infringing upon a milestone Supreme Court request, according to the State of Aadhaar Report 2019 distributed on November 25, 2019.
Across the country, giving Aadhaar during enrolment was compulsory for around 73 percent of kids, the report stated: “Much after the 2018 Supreme Court administering, numerous families still need to give Aadhaar to kids’ school enrolment.”
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is entrusted with the Aadhaar program, had expressed in December 2018 that “requesting Aadhaar cards for confirmations isn’t according to the arrangements of law” and requested that schools guarantee that kids are not prevented affirmation for need from claiming Aadhaar.
The pinnacle court, in its judgment in September 2018, had disallowed private associations and specialist organizations, for example, schools, banks, protection firms and telecom organizations from requesting Aadhaar information to concede school/school affirmations, open financial balances, give portable associations, and so on even as it maintained the connecting of Aadhaar to perpetual record numbers (PAN) and to recipients’ ledgers to get benefits under welfare plans. Pundits of the advanced ID program have reliably raised worries about disavowal of administration just as featured how close to home data and biometrics can be utilized as observation apparatuses.
Aditi Mehta 