Here's how to delink Aadhaar from digital wallet, bank: Step-by-step guide
How to unlink Aadhaar number from bank accounts, paytm, mobile sim, digital wallets on Business Standard. Here's a step by step guide to unlink Aadhaar number from Paytm, bank accounts, mobile numbers and other digital wallets.
Latest News In a major relief for those who were anxious over Aadhaar data security and its implications, the Supreme Court in a landmark verdict ruled that unique identification number would not be needed for opening bank accounts, admission to schools or for getting mobile phone connections. Even as the apex court upheld the validity of Aadhaar, saying sufficient security measures were taken to protect data, it also asked the government to provide more security measures and also reduce the period of storage data. This will come as a major relief, as people were required to submit Aadhaar numbers to get new mobile connections or to continue using their current mobile connections. The apex court also declared that Section 57 of the Aadhaar delink from bank Act as ‘unconstitutional’ and struck it down. Section 57 of Aadhaar Act talked about how private companies could also access Aadhaar data. Here's how SC verdict on Aadhaar will affect you: * Digital wallets like Paytm or Amazon Pay Balance cannot demand Aadhaar data from customers in order to do a verification and allow them to continue using the services. * Telecom service providers like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone and others can no longer force users to link their Aadhaar card to their current mobile number
* Aadhaar for school education would not be necessary * You do not need Aadhaar to sit for government job exams or UGC, CBSE, NEET. So, now that Aadhaar is not mandatory for digitalo wallets and mobile connections, do you wish to delink it?
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