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With the government having recorded the biometric as well as personal details of 48 crore and 27 crore people — many of whom are expected to be in both databases — it has set out on an exercise integrate Aadhaar with the National Population Register, establish the nationality of those registered and weed out illegal immigrants. The government has in its database the iris scan as well as the fingerprints of around 48 crore under Aadhar and 27 crore in the NPR. While Aadhaar is a proof of identity, NPR is meant to register only Indian citizens. -  “Whether one has Aadhaar or not, it is must for every Indian to be registered under NPR, which is a proof of nationality. Enumerators have already visited all households in the country and collected details. What they will do now is a de-duplication exercise as similar details have been recorded under Aadhaar too. Once that is done, we expect to determine the nationality of each individual in the country, thereby identifying illegal imm

Digital India Week: Digital locker, Aadhaar mobile app, BharatNet & more   PM Narendra Modi lunched the Digital India week in Delhi yesterday, wherein schemes worth Rs 1 lakh crore were unveiled, to be implemented by the Ministry of Communications and IT. The program spoke at length about investments in India and digitisation of multiple government services. However, conspicuously absent was any reference to the net neutrality debate or an open internet in the midst of digitising its services. Note that in February this year, the Minister of IT and Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the ministry had approved projects worth Rs 6,000 crore under the ‘Make in India’ program. Here’s a list of services under the program: Digital Locker: Where users can make any government applications online, store all documents online and e-signatures in the app.

Aadhaar Mobile App Launched   A new mobile app has been launched to enable Aadhaar holders to download their Aadhaar details on mobile phones. The app is meant to carry residents’ Aadhaar number and demographics data viz. Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Address and Photograph on mobile ph one. The app is compatible with a large number of Android phones (3.0 to 5.0.1) . The app may be do wnload ed through Google Play app store on mobile numbers registered in UIDAI’s database. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.uidai.maadhaarplus Below screenshot may be used to distinguish the Aadhaar Mobile app from other Aadhaar related apps already available on the Google Play Store     Comments on the app may be posted through the Google App Store . Usage instructions may be referred through “Help” menu item in the home page of the app. (Asst. Director General, Auth & Apps) Unique Identification Authority of India

Narendra Modi government made it clear that UID scheme is "voluntary" and not mandatory. The apex court, which had restrained the authorities from making the Aadhaar card mandatory for extending benefits to public in September 2013, had asked the Narendra Modi government to apprise whether it would like to continue with the scheme. "There is a strong case for continuation of the UID scheme in view of the widespread use and the benefits being provided to the Aadhaar enrollees," the government said filing a joint affidavit including finance ministry, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and other authorities in response to the court's query on a PIL which challenged the validity of the Aadhaar card scheme. "The enrollment to the UID scheme is purely on a voluntary basis and it is not mandatory upon any person to enroll with UID scheme and consequently part with their biometric information," the government added. Opposing