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Aadhaar letter is laminated paper based document issued to the Aadhaar number holders after enrolment or update. Aadhaar PVC Card is PVC based durable and easy to carry card with multiple security features. Aadhaar PVC card is equally valid.
After receiving order for Aadhaar PVC Card from the Aadhaar number holder, UIDAI hands over printed Aadhaar Card to DoP within 5 working days (excluding the date of request). Aadhaar PVC Card is delivered via SPEED POST Service of India Post in line with existing delivery norms to the address registered in aadhaar database. An Aadhaar Number holder may track delivery status using DoP Tracking Services on _layouts/15/dop.portal.tracking/trackconsignment.aspx
SRN is 14 digits Service Request Number which is generated after raising request for Aadhaar update. It will be generated once you start submitting the request. Till the completion of the transaction 'resume' option shall be available.
If Aadhaar number holder wants some changes in the details of printed Aadhaar letter or PVC Card, then he/she first need to update their Aadhaar by visiting Enrollment Center or MyAadhaar portal (depending on update) and then raise the request for Aadhaar PVC Card only after update is successful
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No. UIDAI does not have visibility of linking of your Aadhaar with any other services. Concern departments such as bank, income tax etc. do not share any information of Aadhaar number holder neither UIDAI stores any such informations.
No. Anyone with a smartphone can install and use mAadhaar App.
Without a registered mobile number, Aadhaar number holder will be able to avail only few services such as Order Aadhaar PVC card, Locate Enrolment Center, Verify Aadhaar, Scanning QR code etc.
However registered mobile number is mandatory to create the profile in mAadhaar and use the same as digital identity and avail all other Aadhaar services. The OTP will be sent only to registered mobile for creating the profile in mAadhaar.
mAadhaar app can be used anywhere anytime within India. mAadhaar is more than Aadhaar card in a wallet. On one hand the mAadhaar profile is accepted as a valid ID proof and on the other, resident can use the features in the app to share their eKYC or QR code with service providers who sought Aadhaar verification of their customers before providing Aadhaar services.
Only someone with an Aadhaar linked to a registered mobile number can create Aadhaar profile in the mAadhaar App. They can register their profile in an App installed in any smartphone. However the OTP will be sent to only their registered mobile. Steps to register Aadhaar profile are given below:
Identity verification can simply be accomplished by providing an identity document like PAN card, Passport etc to the service provider. However, all these documents, which may be used for identification can still be forged and faked which may or may not be possible to verify offline instantaneously. The document verifier has no technological means to verify the authenticity of the document or the information it contains and has to trust the document producer. Whereas, the XML file generated by the Aadhaar number holder using Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC is digitally signed document using UIDAI digital signature. Thus, the service provider can verify the demographic contents of the file and certify it to be authentic when doing the offline verification
Any Aadhaar number holder who desires to establish his/her identity to any service provider (OVSE) using digitally signed XML downloaded from UIDAI website can be a user of this service. The service provider should have provisions of providing this Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC at their facility and do the offline verification
A resident desirous of using this facility shall generate his/her digitally signed Offline XML by accessing UIDAI website. The Offline XML will contain Name, Address, Photo, Gender, DOB, hash of registered Mobile Number, hash of registered Email Address and reference id which contains last 4 digits of Aadhaar Number followed by time stamp. It will provide Offline Aadhaar Verification facility to service providers/Offline Verification Seeking Entity (OVSE) without the need to collect or store Aadhaar number.
Aadhaar is insecure because it is based on biometrics. Biometrics is surveillance technology, a necessity for any State. However, surveillance is much like salt in cooking: essential in tiny quantities, but counterproductive even if slightly in excess. Biometrics should be used for targeted surveillance, but this technology should not be used in e-governance for the following reasons:
One, biometrics is becoming a remote technology. High-resolution cameras allow malicious actors to steal fingerprints and iris images from unsuspecting people. In a couple of years, governments will be able to identify citizens more accurately in a crowd with iris recognition than the current generation of facial recognition technology.
Two, biometrics is covert technology. Thanks to sophisticated remote sensors, biometrics can be harvested without the knowledge of the citizen. This increases effectiveness from a surveillance perspective, but diminishes it from an e-governance perspective.
Three, biometrics is non-consensual technology. There is a big difference between the State identifying citizens and citizens identifying themselves to the state. With biometrics, the State can identify citizens without seeking their consent. With a smart card, the citizen has to allow the State to identify them. Once you discard your smart card the State cannot easily identify you, but you cannot discard your biometrics.
Six, biometrics is irrevocable. Once compromised, it cannot be secured again. Smart cards are based on asymmetric cryptography, which even the UIDAI uses to secure its servers from attacks. If cryptography is good for the State, then surely it is good for the citizen too.
Eight, biometric technology is proprietary and opaque. You cannot independently audit the proprietary technology used by the UIDAI for effectiveness and security. On the other hand, open smart card standards like SCOSTA (Smart Card Operating System for Transport Applications) are based on globally accepted cryptographic standards and allow researchers, scientists and mathematicians to independently confirm the claims of the government.
Nine, biometrics is cheap and easy to defeat. Any Indian citizen, even children, can make gummy fingers at home using Fevicol and wax. You can buy fingerprint lifting kits from a toystore. To clone a smart card, on the other hand, you need a skimmer, a printer and knowledge of cryptography.
Each legitimate transaction has repudiable signatures of all parties responsible. With biometrics, the buck will be passed to an inscrutable black box every time things go wrong. The citizens or courts will have nobody to hold to account.
The precursor to Aadhaar was called MNIC (Multipurpose National Identification Card). Initiated by the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, it was based on the open SCOSTA standard. This was the correct technological choice.
This erroneous technological choice is not a glitch or teething problem that can be dealt with legislative fixes such as an improved Aadhaar Act or an omnibus Privacy Act. It can only be fixed by destroying the centralised biometric database, like the UK did, and shifting to smart cards.
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Water Scarcity is a very severe problem across the world, one of the main factors is improper distribution of water and careless use of water by people, this is only going to be more severe in future as population and needs of the world rises. Many countries have increased deployment of smart water meters to monitor water usage and tried convincing people to not use water in a careless manner but have not been successful yet. This research paper presents the development and implementation of a smart water meter (SWM) prototype for household water consumption measurement. The SWM utilizes Wi-Fi or Long Range (LoRa) technology to transmit data and is integrated with Citizen Id (SSN) to centralize water distribution, and help detect water theft. Additionally, the meter incorporates SARIMA forecasting to predict water consumption based on past usage trends on the edge. The water consumption data can be accessed through a web and Android application, and an integrated billing system has been developed to provide users with information about their current water usage. The machine learning model was trained and tested on the water consumption dataset by DAIAD. The DAIAD dataset consists of hourly water consumption time series for 1,007 randomly selected consumers from the AMAEM (Association of Energy and Water Management) utility in Alicante, Spain, spanning from January 2015 to May 2017, totaling 16,857,056 measurements. The whole system was tested by installing it in a house and the forecasting model achieved an accuracy of 74%.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has cautioned the general public not fall to ploys of some unscrupulous entities who are charging anywhere between Rs.50 to Rs.200 for printing Aadhaar on a plastic card in the name of smart card.
Director General & Mission Director of UIDAI, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey, in a press statement issued today, made clear that the Aadhaar letter or its cutaway portion or downloaded version of Aadhaar on ordinary paper is perfectly valid. Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey said
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