No Aadhaar seeding with voter I-cards

No Aadhaar seeding with voter I-cards

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 29

The Election Department has stopped the collection of the Aadhaar card data from the electors for seeding with the voter I-cards following a Supreme Court judgement.

“It has been decided that no collection of Aadhaar numbers from the electors or feeding or seeding would be done by any election authority or official involved with the National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme,” said Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Shrikant Walgad.

He said in compliance with the directions issued by the Election Commission of India, Aadhaar data would not be collected from any other agency, data hub or organisation of the Central or state governments, nor would the data collected so far be used for any authentication or other purposes.

Walgad said the Election Commission had issued instructions for the maintenance of data security and confidentiality of the Aadhaar data already collected from the electors or government departments and agencies.

On August 11, the Supreme Court had said in its orders that the production of an Aadhaar card would not be a condition for obtaining any benefits otherwise due to a citizen.