UIDAI cautions schools not to insist on Aadhaar for admission
6 years ago

UIDAI cautions schools not to insist on Aadhaar for admission

The Hindu  

Aadhaar issuing body UIDAI has asserted that schools cannot make the 12-digit biometric identifier a pre-condition for student admission and warned that doing so will be against the recent order of the Supreme Court. This is not as per the provisions of law.school admission and other facility to children cannot be made conditional to production of Aadhaar,” UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey told PTI. “In fact, schools should admit children without Aadhaar and ensure that children are given Aadhaar once they are in schools by arranging special camps for them,” he said. Asked what action could schools face if they continued to insist on Aadhaar, Mr. Pandey said that it will clearly be seen as contempt of court.

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