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The telecom regulator has strongly defended the mandatory linkage of Aadhaar with mobile numbers.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, in January 2016, recommended Aadhaar as one of the documents that could be used to issue a new SIM card, because it was a “robust way of authentication” as well as “environment friendly”, Chairman RS Sharma told BloombergQuint in an interview.
The TRAI chief said that hundreds of complaints have been received on SIM cards backed by fake identities, especially during criminal investigations. Aadhaar effectively cuts this out, Sharma said.
A clutch of petitions in the Supreme Court have challenged the mandatory linkage of Aadhaar to essential services, including mobile numbers.
(This article was originally published on BloombergQuint)
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