UIDAI brings digitally-signed QR code with photo for eaadhaar
NEW DELHI: The UIDAI has brought in secure digitally-signed QR Code on e-aadhaar that will now contain photograph of the Aadhaar holder too, in addition to demographic details, to facilitate better offline verification of an individual.
"The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has recently replaced existing QR code on e-aadhaar having resident's demographic details now with a secured digitallysigned QR Code which contains demographics along with photograph of the Aadhaar holder," a UIDAI source said.
A QR code is a form of barcode label which contains machine-readable information, while e-aadhaar is the electronic version of Aadhaar that can be downloaded from UIDAI website.
The new feature, the digitally-signed QR code, will contain photo of the Aadhaar holder in addition to existing facility of demographic details, in turn allowing various user agencies like banks to verify authenticity of Aadhaar card offline.
When contacted UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said, This is a simple offline mechanism to quickly verify the genuineness of the Aadhaar card."
However, to ensure that a person is a bona fide owner of the Aadhaar card, there has to be a manual check of photo with the individual's face or though use of agency specific authentication scheme, he noted.
The UIDAI'S e-aadhaar QR Code reader software has been made available on the nodal body's website from 27 March 2018.
Offline verification facility would add yet another option to the exception-handling mechanism at the ground level for ensuring that no denials on Aadhaar-based services take place, the source added.
"In simple words, it is a very useful and secure facility on eaadhaar where anyone, whether an Aadhaar holder or a user or service agencies like banks can do offline verification of the data in e-aadhaar along with the photograph," the source added.
So now, in an eaadhaar, there will a small QR code on front side of cutaway portion, with demographic data only, and large ones on top portion of front side and the back (containing demographic data and the photo). Further, to make this information more secured and tamper-proof, it will be signed with UIDAI digital signature, the source added. SRINAGAR: IAS officer Tina Dabi, who topped the UPSC'S civil services examination in 2015 has tied the knot to her Kashmiri batch-mate Amir Athar Amirul Shafi Khan, who secured the second rank in the prestigious examination the same year.
The two young IAS officers got married at a ceremony in the picturesque Pahalgam town yesterday.
The cupid had struck the two officers reportedly during training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration in Mussoorie.
The proximity between the two came to light when they posted a picture on social media a year ago.
The duo again posted their wedding pictures on social media which circulated widely.
Even the pictures of their wedding invitation card were widely shared on social media. PATNA: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday favoured inclusion of the SC/ST Act and reservations for Dalits in Ninth Schedule of the Constitution so that they cannot be challenged in a court of law.
Laws under the Ninth Schedule are beyond the purview of judicial review. The Supreme Court, however, in 2007 had ruled that any law placed in the Ninth Schedule after April 24, 1973, would be subject to scrutiny of courts if they violated fundamental rights. "I would also urge the government to consider inclusion of the SC/ST Act and the reservations in the Ninth Schedule so that there remains no possibility of anybody challenging them in a court of law," Paswan told reporters.
Paswan, also the Lok Janshakti Party chief, charged the opposition parties such as the Congress, the RJD and the BSP with trying to derive political mileage out of the anxieties of Dalits following dilution of the SC/ST Act by the Supreme Court. "I fully understand what the Dalits must be feeling in the wake of the Supreme Court order. But I would request them to rest assured that the matter will be dealt with," he said.
The Supreme Court had on March 20 "diluted" the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, ruling that government servants should not be arrested without prior sanction and private citizens too, can be arrested only after an inquiry.
"I have no objection to Dalit youths taking part in agitations but they must not indulge in violence. But, I have serious problem with opposition political parties... out of the issue," he said.