Apply for New Airtel & Vodafone connections with Aadhaar Card
Vodafone has already been accepting the Aadhaar Card (the part of UIDAI project) for the new mobile applications in Hyderabad and Vijaywada. But the real big adoption of the new Aadhaar (digital identity card) is now coming from Airtel which has announced that it will accept the card as identity proof for the new mobile connection applications. What this means is filling out lengthy application forms and attaching truckloads of documents and identity and residence proof would soon become a thing of past. Airtel's starting Aadhaar enabled eKYC (electronic Know Your Customer) services in Delhi. The service will be rolled out to other important cities in India soon.
Nandan Nilekeni (ex-Infosys CEO) has been leading the project for a few years now and the UIDAI project is one of its kind. It aims to provide a unique identification number to all the citizens of India.
The mobile outlets will be equipped with a special machine for the processing of the Customer Acquisition Forms (CAFs) connected with biometric scanners. While making a new application, the subscriber will have to touch the biometric scanner so that the fingerprint can be verified with a central repository of all the identities collected by the Aadhaar team. The system will verify the user and once successfully authenticated, Airtel will issue the new SIM card to the user.
Airtel adopting the new identification system is going to be a big step in popularising of the Aaadhaar project. We recently informed you that Airtel has become the #-Link-Snipped-# with a subscriber base of about 250 million. We expect other players like Idea Cellular, Reliance and Tata Docomo to follow the suit. We hope to see the mobile applications going paperless.
Nandan Nilekeni (ex-Infosys CEO) has been leading the project for a few years now and the UIDAI project is one of its kind. It aims to provide a unique identification number to all the citizens of India.
The mobile outlets will be equipped with a special machine for the processing of the Customer Acquisition Forms (CAFs) connected with biometric scanners. While making a new application, the subscriber will have to touch the biometric scanner so that the fingerprint can be verified with a central repository of all the identities collected by the Aadhaar team. The system will verify the user and once successfully authenticated, Airtel will issue the new SIM card to the user.
Airtel adopting the new identification system is going to be a big step in popularising of the Aaadhaar project. We recently informed you that Airtel has become the #-Link-Snipped-# with a subscriber base of about 250 million. We expect other players like Idea Cellular, Reliance and Tata Docomo to follow the suit. We hope to see the mobile applications going paperless.
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