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Aadhaar Number to be issued soon for Indian Cows

Indian Cows will soon own Aadhaar Number, recently Narendra Modi gave suggestion to Supreme Court of India to issue Unique Identification Number for Cows. The main reason behind issuing Aadhaar Number to cows are cattle can be easily tracked. Aadhaar Number will not be issued to Cows but similar initiative like Aadhaar by UIDAI will be launched to issue unique number to cows which will also maintain record of the cow details like age, breed, gender, location, body color, height, horn type, tail switch and birth marks or special marks. Each cow will be tagged with this unique number on their ear. How Issuing Aadhaar Number by UIDAI to Cows will help? Issuing Unique Number to Cows will eliminate trafficking of cattle across the Indo-Bangla border. It will also stop smuggling of Cows to Nepal during the Gadhimai festival held once in five years. If the Cow has to be exported to other country than it should be done by taking valid license from regional licensing authority. By issuing Uniqu

Railways Revokes Aadhaar Card for Senior Citizen’s Concessional Tickets

IRCTC & Mistry of Railways has taken decision to revoke the mandatory requirement to produce Aadhaar Card for reserved tickets for senior citizens. Now Indian Railways cannot deny concessions when booking railway tickets if the Senior Citizen doesn't possess an Aadhaar Card. This revocation came just two weeks after the railways had made Aadhaar Verification Mandatory to avail concessional tickets for senior citizens. However to avail concessional tickets the senior citizen will have to produce some proof of ID showing date of birth or age if demanded by the on-board ticket checking staff. Aadhaar based ticketing system has been immediately withdrawn and it had bought relief to many people who have still not registered their self for Aadhaar. Also Check: PAN could go invalid if not linked with Aadhaar Number

NRI Bank Account Holders Should Link Aadhaar before 30th April

The Tax Department of India has passed an order to link Aadhaar Number with Bank Account latest by 30th April 2017 to avoid your account getting blocked. However the linking of Aadhaar with Bank Account, Insurance or Stock Account is mandatory, only to those who had opened account between July 2014 to August 2015 under the foreign tax compliance act (FATCA). Before Supreme Court of India had ordered that Aadhaar Card can only be mandatory for various welfare schemes, but now it looks Government is trying to push usage of Aadhaar beyond the Supreme Court Order. Now Aadhaar Card is been asked to file income tax returns, open new bank account and link PAN Card or else it would go invalid. The deadline given by government to link PAN with Aadhaar Number is July 1st 2017. On other hand Government is trying to widespread the usage of Aadhaar as much as possible to maintain the database of citizens of India so that no fraudulent activities are carried away. Also Check: Bank Accounts not linke

Charges Charged by UIDAI Aadhaar Kendra for Aadhaar Services

Government of India Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Unique Identification Authority of India has passed an office memorandum. And in which all the various charges are mentioned which will be charged by UIDAI Aadhaar Card Kendra for various Aadhaar Services. Below are the list of all Charges Charged by UIDAI Aadhaar Kendra for Aadhaar Services which will be made effective from 1st January 2017. Service Type Assistance Paid to Registrars (Rs.) Fees Collected from resident by service provider (Rs.) Aadhaar Generation 50/- - Mandatory Biometric Update 25/- - Other Biometric Update - 25/- Demographic Update (any type any channel) - 25/- Aadhaar Search using eKYC/ Find Aadhaar/ any other tool and color print out A4 Sheet - 20/- Aadhaar Search using eKYC/ Find Aadhaar/ any other tool and B/W print out on A4 Sheet - 10/- BFD/ Status Query - Free Also Check: How to Apply for Aadhaar Card

Bank Accounts not linked with Aadhaar to be Blocked After 30th April

Income Tax Department of India has made Aadhaar to be linked to Bank Account Mandatory to all those banks accounts, insurance, and stocks opened from July 2014 to August 2015. Those who fail to link Aadhaar Number with their Bank Account/ Insurance or Stocks will get their accounts blocked. All account holders under the ambit of the Foreign Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) signed by India and the United States in July 2015 to weed out tax evaders will have to provide self-certification by submitting KYC details and their Aadhaar Number to Bank by 30th April 2017. In case if self-certifications are not provided till April 2017 the accounts will get blocked which will prohibit account holder from effecting any transaction with respect to such accounts. On other hand Supreme Court of India has recently ordered Aadhaar Cards can only be used for providing welfare schemes service and not as ID required for general services. The new finance bill also introduced filing of income tax returns by indi