Aadhaar: Government Tables Bill to Allow Voluntary Use for New SIM Cards

The government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, which will allow individuals to voluntarily present the biometric ID basis as a means of identity verification for opening a bank account and receiving services such as mobile phone connections.

The bill, which seeks to amend the three separate laws governing the basis, telecommunication sector and banking regulation, gives the option of getting out of the 12-digit identity plan after getting the age of 18 years. It also provides for harsh penalties for the violation of the norms used for the use of the premises.

Based on the basis and other law (amendment) Bill 2018, the law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad moved in the Lok Sabha, along with the storage of core biometric information, in the cases of those people, the service providers have been banned on the basis of base number, The National ID is voluntarily offered as a means of authentication. It also clarifies that no person offering the Aadhaar can be denied any service, whether it is a bank account or a SIM card.

The bill seeks to amend the base (Targeted Financial and Other Subsidy, Target and Targeted Delivery of Service) Act, 2016, Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and Amendment to Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The law is proposed apart from telecom service providers, using the basis for authentication, offline verification notified by the central government, use of passport, or any other officially valid document or methods of identification can take advantage of.

According to the objects and reasons for the bill, the amendment "will provide the base number 12 digits and its alternate number to generate" in a way to hide the actual base number. He said that only authenticating institutions will be allowed only after meeting the standards of privacy and safety.

The Bill has also been attempted to determine the process of offline verification of the Aadhaar number holder, and to give power specifications like the Enhanced Regulator on the Indian Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) as it is necessary for any unit in the base ecosystem Could. It states that every requesting institution, from which authentication is requested, will inform the applicant of the alternate and viable means of identification, and will not be able to go through the certification or deny any services for them.

The mandatory certification of the holder for the provision of any service will be required according to the law made by Parliament. Bill in Rs. The civil penalty of up to Rs. Extra fines up to Rs 1 crore on institutions violating the provisions of the Aadhaar Act. In case of continuous non-compliance, one million per day.

The unauthorized use of identity information by the requesting agency or the organization seeking offline verification will be punishable with up to three years imprisonment which can be up to Rs. In a company or case of a fine of up to Rs 10,000. 1 Lac. The punishment for unauthorized access to the Central Identity Data Repository, as well as data tampering, is proposed to be extended for every 10 years from the present three years.

The Bill seeks to exclude Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act related to the use of the basis by private institutions. There will be a provision for filing an appeal before TDSAT (Telecommunications Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal), and appeals can be made against the orders of TDSAT in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court had upheld the Constitutional validity of 'Aadhaar' in a historic decision last September, but limited the scope of the controversial biometric identification project, deciding whether it was for bank accounts, mobile connections or school admissions. Is not mandatory for There was nothing in the Aadhar Act that violated the right to privacy of a person, the SC had approved the use of the basis for welfare schemes (the world's largest biometric ID program).

The court had admitted that the basis for filing income tax return (IT) returns and for the allocation of permanent account number (PAN) will be compulsory, but the biometric in Section 57 (Financial and Other Subsidy, Target and Targeted Delivery of Service) Act, 2016 To take advantage of the base data, private companies such as telecom companies or other corporations were allowed.

After this, the Cabinet last month approved amendment in the Aadhaar Act, the Indian Telegraph Act and Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The bill states that "Every Aadhaar number holder can use his base number voluntarily through authentication or offline verification or in such other form to establish his identity as can be notified. "It can also be called offline verification, only with the consent of the Aadhaar number holder.

Aadhaar: Government Tables Bill to Allow Voluntary Use for New SIM Cards