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Life without Aadhaar


Life without Aadhaar

An army veteran and RTI activist told me that the lack of Aadhaar had amounted to his ‘financial death’ and that he was surviving on past savings and the support of family and friends. The market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) issued blocking orders last year, citing an obsolete CBDT notice on inactive PANs. After the Supreme Court constrained the use of Aadhaar in 2018, UIDAI introduced a QR code with a digital signature to confirm that the data had not been tampered with, replacing online verification.

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