Justice Chandrachud asks if enrollment and authentication services under Aadhaar are free. AG says yes.
J. Chandrachud: What took the government seven years to pass this Act?
We did not want to link it with citizenship and includes transgenders and children.
There's no data sharing without consent.
Says even father's name is not necessary. No info on religion, caste etc is collected.
ABP says authentication will happen through otp in such cases. Refers to Aadhaar Authentication Regs.
J. Sikri: Why did you de register so many agencies then?
ABP says it was due to corruption mostly. Also some operators were not entering the details properly. Says that they have very strict quality control standards
ABP reiterates that they have high quality parameters.
ABP says that anganwadi workers themselves become enrollers. Also, enrollment camps are set up in schools.
ABP says that people can go to enrolment centres and get their details updated.
J. Sikri: Many people might not know that their biometrics have changed. What do they do?
ABP says that we tell entities to make exception handling measures.
J. Chandrachud asks if there is any data on denial of services.
ABP says enrollment and updation of Aadhaar is a continuing process.
The total cost of an aadhaar card is less than one dollar.
ABP: only biometrics matching software has been taken from the world's best companies. Rest has been developed in India.
ABP says he'll explain that later.