a big setback for aadhaar August 9, 2014 · by m rajshekhar The finance ministry has decided to limit Aadhaar’s role in its welfare scheme payments and, instead, use ATM-enabled RuPay cards for last-mile authentication to withdraw money. While it will continue to use Aadhaar for opening accounts and to eliminate ghosts and duplicates from beneficiary rolls, the ministry has decided to give RuPay ATM cards with bank accounts being opened under to-be-announced financial inclusion drive, Sampoorn Vittiyea Samaveshan, government officials told ET. “We do not want that an account holder should be restricted on a particular technology platform. By providing RuPay powered ATM card the account holder can transact on multiple platforms,” a senior finance ministry official said on the condition of anonymity. This is a large blow to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which has, till now, regarded authentication services as one of its principal functions. ps: for context on the quote, see this post (and the accompanying article). Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related
