UIDAI security key in 1.3 mn telecom biometric units: CEO

Once Aadhaar is linked to more government programmes and subsidies, the savings could be $10 bn every year, added UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey

Press Trust of India | New Delhi

Last Updated at November 24, 2017 15:50 IST

Tiny URL Add to My Page Print Email

3,500 state, central schemes worth Rs 6 lakh cr to come under DBT soon

People hold up their Aadhaar ID card. File photo

ALSO READ

UIDAI security key in 1.3 mn telecom biometric units: CEO

210 govt websites made Aadhaar details like names, addresses public: UIDAI

Did UIDAI share biometric data with its foreign vendors?

UIDAI says Aadhaar system secure, refutes reports of biometric data breach

Aadhaar data is fully safe, assures UIDAI

As many as 500 missing children have been traced over the last few months through Aadhaar, the CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ajay Bhushan Pandey, said on Friday.

"Over the last few months, more than 500 missing children have been identified through Aadhaar," he said addressing a session at the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS) 2017.

Explaining this, he said this happened in instances where a child found in an orphanage underwent Aadhaar enrolment and it was found that his/her 12-digit biometric identifier had already been made. "...through that we are able to trace," Pandey said.

On a lighter note, he said the script of classic Bollywood potboilers about siblings separating and re-uniting after decades would now have to be re-worked with Aadhaar in the picture.

India is among the nations with the largest number of children in the world, with about 40 per cent of the 1.2 billion population being below the age of 18, according to 2011 Census.

According to CRY (Child Rights and You), an NGO working for child rights, the number of children who went missing and remain untraced across the country increased by about 84 per cent between 2013 and 2015. It quoted government data to say about 180 children go missing on an average every day.

Speaking at the session on 'Digital Identity for All: Global Best Practices', Pandey further said the total saving so far on account of Aadhaar was over $10 billion as its linkages to various government schemes had helped remove "ghosts and duplicates" from the system.

Once Aadhaar is linked to more government programmes and subsidies, the savings could be $10 billion every year, he said.

The total Aadhaar base currently stands at 1.19 billion, Pandey said, adding that 99 per cent of adults have Aadhaar.

First Published: Fri, November 24 2017. 15:49 IST

READ MORE ON

AADHAAR

UIDAI

UNIQUE ID

AJAY BHUSHAN PANDEY

MISSING CHILDREN

BIOMETRIC DATA

2011 CENSUS

CURRENT AFFAIRS

NATIONAL

PREVIOUS STORY

NEXT STORY

India developing smaller 500 kg rocket to cash in on small-satellite boom

Gujarat polls: Modi urges people to vote, enrich 'festival of democracy'

Lodge FIR against Congress leaders who met Pak envoy: BJP leader to NIA

Lost battle to save my brother: Firoz Nadiadwala on Neeraj Vora's death

Shock awaits BJP in Gujarat, they are scared: Rahul Gandhi

INS Kalvari, Navy's 1st Scorpene class submarine commissioned: 10 key facts

Vodafone case: SC to hear Centre's plea challenging Delhi HC order today

Shahid Kapoor named 'Sexiest Asian Man', Hrithik Roshan ranks second

Amarnath cave shrine a silent zone, no mantra chanting or bells: NGT

Licence cancellation: Max moves govt authority, says patients affected

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU

GO

LATEST NEWS

IN THIS SECTION

ALL

Exam

Modi 'sovy' leader? Teachers fired for spelling error in RBSE English paper

Isro, satellite, rocket, PSLV

India developing smaller 500 kg rocket to cash in on small-satellite boom

Narendra Modi

Gujarat polls: Modi urges people to vote, enrich 'festival of democracy'

Representative image (Photo: Shutterstock)

Lodge FIR against Congress leaders who met Pak envoy: BJP leader to NIA

More >

MOST POPULAR

READ

SHARE

COMMENTED

NASA Adam's Bridge

Ram Setu man-made? Discovery Science Channel says so, with scientific proof

Amarnath Yatra

Amarnath cave shrine a silent zone, no mantra chanting or bells: NGT

Business Standard Banking Round Table 2017

BS Banking Round Table 2017: IBC has shifted balance of power, say bankers

Bitcoin: What's in store for 2016

Bitcoin trade under lens? Tax sleuths visit Bitcoin exchanges across India