New Aadhaar Rule: Supporting documents to be updated “at least once” in 10 years

As per the amended Aadhaar regulations, supporting documents are to be updated “at least once” by Aadhaar holders on completion of 10 years from the enrolment date.

The gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Electronics and IT stated, “Aadhaar number holders may, on completion of every 10 years from the date of enrolment for Aadhaar, update their supporting documents in Aadhaar, at least once, by submitting Proof of Identity (POI) and Proof of Address (POA) documents…so as to ensure continued accuracy of their information in the CIDR, in such manner as may be specified by the Authority from time to time.”

Last month, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had requested citizens who had received their unique Aadhaar ID 10 years back, to update their identification and residence proof documents, if they had not updated them.

The UIDAI has developed a new feature of ‘update document’ in the ‘myAadhaar’ portal, and the ‘myAadhaar’ app. One can also visit any Aadhaar enrolment centre to update information.