{"id":33404,"date":"2018-10-30T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:38:50","slug":"aadhaar-link-deadline-a-subsidies-to-be-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-link-deadline-a-subsidies-to-be-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar link deadline a subsidies to be March 31\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/aadhaar-linking-deadline-for-services-to-be-extended-to-march-31\/article21288273.ece\"><strong>Aadhaar link deadline a subsidies to be March 31<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aadhaar linking deadline<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney General of India K.K. Venugopal has submitted before the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0that the government intends to issue a notification on December 8, extending the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with services from December 31 to March 31, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extension<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This extension would include 139 government\u00a0subsidies,\u00a0benefits or services, which are funded out of the Consolidated Fund of India as per Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act of 2016. The deadline for Aadhaar\u00a0linkage for these services\u00a0is currently December 31, 2017<\/li>\n<li>The extension would, in all likelihood, include the mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts. Government lawyers in the Supreme Court said the extension of the deadline to March 31, 2018\u00a0in the case of Aadhaar-bank accounts linkage may\u00a0be done in the next few days as this involved consultations with the Reserve Bank of India.\u00a0So far, private citizens run the risk of being locked out of access to their own bank accounts if they do not link them with Aadhaar by December 31<\/li>\n<li>It does not include the linking of mobile phone numbers with Aadhaar. The deadline for this is February 6, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Judicial order<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would require a judicial order from the Supreme Court itself to extend the deadline to March 31, 2018. This is because the government is complying with a February 6, 2017 order of the court in the Lok Niti Foundation case to tighten up the verification process of mobile phone users through Aadhaar linkage, citing national security<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel report by February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Data Protection Committee,\u00a0led by Justice Srikrishna, would submit its final report on sprucing up the Aadhaar Act to make it safe from data theft by February 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitions in limbo<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Aadhaar petitions are in limbo in the Supreme Court since 2014<\/li>\n<li>The petitions have been challenged Aadhaar as a violation of the fundamental right to privacy<\/li>\n<li>A Constitution Bench may be set up to decide all the Aadhaar issues once and for all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The decision\u00a0to set up a Constitution Bench\u00a0comes despite\u00a0Justice Rohinton Nariman\u2019s separate judgment\u00a0in the nine-judge Bench declaring right to privacy as a fundamental right. The order directed that the Aadhaar petitions to be posted for hearing before the \u201coriginal\u201d three-judge Bench<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This \u2018original\u2019 Bench, led by Justice J. Chelameswar, had referred the petitions for hearing before a five-judge Bench, ehich found it necessary to first decide whether privacy was a fundamental right or not before hearing the Aadhaar petitions<\/li>\n<li>It referred the legal question to a nine-judge Bench, which came out with the\u00a0historic judgment\u00a0in favour of the common man\u2019s fundamental right to privacy against State intrusions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Petitioners\u2019 argument<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The petitioners argue that mandatory requirement of Aadhaar for these schemes \u201cconstrict rights and freedoms, which a citizen has long been enjoying unless and until they part with their personal biometric information to the government\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The petitions have termed the Aadhaar Act of 2016 unconstitutional and contrary to concept of limited and accountable governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aadhaar link deadline a subsidies to be March 31\u00a0 Context Aadhaar linking deadline What has happened? Attorney General of India K.K. Venugopal has submitted before the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0that the government intends to issue a notification on December 8, extending the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with services from December 31 to March 31, 2018 Extension&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-link-deadline-a-subsidies-to-be-march-31\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aadhaar link deadline a subsidies to be March 31\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856877},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}