The Government’s initiative to
issue identification cards (Aadhar) with unique identification
number (UID) to all citizens of India is really a mammoth work considering
the population in India.
As per the statistics issued about
Aadhar, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) has spent more than
Rs.2000 crores for issuing Aadhar to nearly 23 crore people.
As such the Aadhar system is
stated to be one of the full-proof technology to prevent duplication.
Three biometric attributes i.e face, fingerprints and iris images of the card
holder are collected to maintain uniqueness.
Government has also taken all
steps to officialize Aadhar Card for its acceptance an identification
card by all government as well as private authorities.
Railways has already
notified Aadhar as an acceptable identification card. But Banks say Aadhar alone is not enough for opening new account as it
does not contain date of birth.
However, for opening a new
account Banks are not accepting Aadhar alone as a documentary proof for
the reason that date of birth of the card holder is not mentioned in
Aadhar. Hence,Banks insist additional
documents such as PAN to verify the date of birth.
Aadhar is supposed to eliminate an
individual’s difficulty of carrying multiple identification documents.
But in this case Aadhar is not alone enough as it could not produced as a
document for certifying one’s age.
Better late than never: Many feel, mentioning date of birth in
Aadhar would
not be a problem as UIAI collects
date of birth of an individual in the
initial application itself. In fact the year of birth is
mentioned in Aadhar.
Source: Times of India
