UIDAI says no essential service can be denied for want of Aadhaar
New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India has asked various government departments, state governments and ministries to ensure that no essential service or benefit, such as medical treatment, school admission or ration through Public Distribution Service, be denied to a genuine beneficiary for the want of Aadhaar. “The government is sensitive to the fact that no emergency services such as hospitalisation, etc., be denied for the want of any document whatsoever including Aadhaar,” the UIDAI said in a statement on Saturday. The UIDAI also said that it had issued a circular in October last year and Cabinet Secretariat had issued instructions in December which contain detailed guidelines for exception-handling mechanism for extending benefits to beneficiaries who do not posses Aadhaar or in cases where Aadhaar authentication is not successful due to any reason. Taking a “serious note” of some of the cases reported in media recently in which it is claimed that the want of Aadhaar has resulted in the denial of essential services, the UIDAI said that the real facts behind such claims of denial are being investigated by the concerned agencies.
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