Lok Sabha Question No. 3776 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-09
Subject: Linking of Aadhaar Data
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: DODDAALAHALLI KEMPEGOWDA SURESH, VINCENT H PALA, RANJEET RANJAN, RAJESH RANJAN  (PAPPU  YADAV), MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVNTHI), SAUGATA ROY, POONAMBEN HEMATBHAI MAADAM

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3776

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 9 TH AUGUST, 2016/SHRAVANA 18, 1938, (SAKA)

## LINKING OF AADHAAR DATA

3776.

SHRI D.K. SURESH:

SHRI VINCENT H. PALA:

SHRIMATI RANJEET RANJAN:

SHRI RAJESH RANJAN:

SHRI MUTHAMSETTI

SRINIVASA RAO (AVANTHI):

PROF. SAUGATA ROY:

SHRIMATI POONAMBEN MAADAM:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  to  link  AADHAAR  with caste  and  domicile  certificates  including  for  SC/  ST  students,  SC/ST beneficiaries  for  scholarships,  data  on  women  and  children  suffering from malnutrition, religion data etc. and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the consent of the beneficiaries/affected persons would be taken in this regard and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether it is also proposed to utilise the Aadhaar data for tracking the effectiveness of nutrition programmes and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  whether the Government has issued any directive to the States in this regard and if so, the reaction of the States thereto; and
- (e) the agencies/bodies allowed to access Aadhaar data along with the firewalls/ safeguards to protect the data from unauthorized access?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI HANSRAJ GANGARAM AHIR)

## LS.US.Q.No.3776 FOR 09.08.2016

(a) to (d): UIDAI issues Aadhaar to the residents of the country. Use of Aadhaar and its linking to various schemes/ services / programmes etc, for  any  purpose  is  decided  by  the  concerned  Ministries/  Departments administering these schemes/ services/ programmes.

Ministry of social Justice & Empowerment have advised the States/UTs to carry out Aadhar enrolment and seeding to bank accounts in respect of beneficiaries availing Schlorships under various schemes for Scheduled  Caste  (SC)  beneficiaries.  Aadhaar  serves  as  an  unique identifier in checking duplication and misuse of funds and malfeasance thereby ensuring that better coverage is given to deserving beneficiaries.

Ministry of Tribal Affairs has decided that from 2016-17 all scholarship will  be  disbursed  through  Direct  Benefit  Transfer(DBT)  and  National Scholarship Portal directly into  Aadhar  seeded  Bank  Account  of Scheduled  Tribe  (ST)  beneficiaries.  Necessary  advisories  have  been issued to States/UTs in this regard.

The  Ministry  of  Women  &  Child  Development  is  implementing  ICT enabled  Real  Time  Monitoring  (ICT-RTM)  of  ICDS  for  improving  the service  delivery  system  and  ensuring  its  better  supervision  using Common Application Software (ICDS-CAS) solution based mobile

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technology  at  the  level  of  Anganwadi  worker  at  village  level  and  her supervisor under the World Bank assisted ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project (ISSNIP). Aadhar Card would only be used with full consent of the card holder to identify the beneficiary for inidividualised tracking.

(e) Only authorised agencies have access to the UIDAI database i.e. the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR), with safeguards that they can only access the part of the data which they are authorised to do so. Agencies authourized to use the authentication and/or e-KYC services of UIDAI transmit the authentication requests using secure applications through encryptyed channels to the CIDR. The CIDR, in turn, returns a response either in the form of a 'Yes' or 'No' or a digitally signed and encrypted e-KYC comprising of demographic data  (Photograph, name. Gender, address etc.)

UIDAI has a well-defined end-to-end data security policy that addresses all  aspects  of  data  collection,  data  handling  and  data  storage.  UIDAI has  also  been  awarded  the  ISO  27001  certificate,  which  is  globally accepted as the highest standard for IT security. Further, UIDAI's CIDR facilities, Information Assets, Logistics and Infrastructure and Dependencies installed at UIDAI have been classified as Protected

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System under section 70 (1) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 w.e.f. 11 December 2015.

Moreover,  the  Aadhaar  (Targeted  Delivery  of  Financial  and    Other Subsidies,  Benefits  and  Services)  Act,  2016  ('Act'),  has  stringent provisions  for  data  security  and  protection  of  information  of  Aadhaar number holders and ensures that the information in the possession or control of the Authority including the information stored in the CIDR is secured and protected and prescription of penalties for contraventions thereof.

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