Newborns To Get Temporary Aadhar Number As UIDAI Plans To Link Birth, Death Data

The Unique Identification Authority of India, UIDAI, is planning to launch two new pilot projects. It aimed at plugging misuse of Aadhaar and providing benefits to newborn babies. Newborn infants will receive a temporary Aadhaar number to be renewed with biometric data on attainment of majority, i.e. This will be renewed with biometric data “on attainment of adulthood.”

The objective behind linking an individual’s entire lifecycle data to Aadhar is to fix misuse and deepen its reach countrywide. The government believes that integrating birth-to-death data will prevent the misappropriation. Welfare schemes and also no one will be left out of the social security net. 

“The allocation of a UIDAI number at birth will ensure that children and families benefit from government programmes and no one is left out of the social security net,” a top official told the publication. While the integration of Aadhaar numbers with the country’s death registration databases as well as with that of public and private hospitals is aimed at stemming the leak of direct benefit transfers.