RGI urges states to safeguard Aadhaar data collected for National Population Register exercise
After Information and Technology (IT) Ministry, the Union Home Ministry has also woken up to the challenge of avoiding leakage of Aadhaar details, realising it too had recorded the Aadhaar numbers of people during National Population Register (NPR) exercise.
Registrar General of India (RGI) has recently written to all states that the Aadhaar details collected during the NPR exercise also need to be safeguarded – which may well be a logistical nightmare given such details exist in form of paper documents at the level of not just state departments but also district and even sub-district levels.
All this data was to be used for issuing Resident Identity Cards to all above 18 years – a project to which Cabinet is still to give its approval.
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