No one should be denied medicine, hospital or vaccine for want of Aadhaar: UIDAI

The Distinctive Identification Authority of India clarified in an announcement on Saturday that the twelve-digit Aadhaar number isn’t obligatory for availing any vaccine, medication, hospitalization or therapy and nobody needs to be denied any service for “need of Aadhaar”.

This comes after there have been reviews that folks had been getting essential services like hospitalization, vaccination and oxygen provides denied if they didn’t present their Aadhaar.

“Within the Covid pandemic circumstances, nobody shall be denied a service/profit simply because s/he doesn’t have an Aadhaar. If one doesn’t have Aadhaar or if Aadhaar on-line verification isn’t profitable as a consequence of some motive, the involved company or division has to supply the service as per Part 7 of Aadhaar Act, 2016 and the Cupboard Secretariat OM dated nineteenth Dec 2017.” It added that Aadhaar shouldn’t be misused as an excuse for denial of any important service. There’s a well-established exception dealing with mechanism (EHM) for Aadhaar and it needs to be adopted to make sure supply of advantages and providers within the absence of Aadhaar.

Aadhaar is supposed to convey transparency and accountability in public service deliveries via efficient use of know-how and there are exception dealing with laws issued by UIDAI, it mentioned.

Individuals ought to method greater authorities of involved departments, in case of any such denial of service or profit, UIDAI mentioned.