No System Outage In Linking Aadhaar With PAN, PF: Biometrics Authority
According to a statement by UIDAI, it was going through an essential security upgrade in its systems in a phased manner over the last week
Over 51 lakh people have enrolled in last nine days since beginning of the upgrade process
New Delhi:
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday said all its services are stable and functioning fine and there have been no outages in its Aadhaar, PAN and Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) linking facility, which is authentication based.
“The PAN/EPFO is an authentication-based facility,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology added.
The UIDAI said media reports about system outages in linking Aadhaar with PAN and EPFO are not accurate.
According to the statement by UIDAI, it was going through an essential security upgrade in its systems in a phased manner over the last week, and some intermittent service interruptions were reported only in the enrolment and mobile update service facility at a few enrolment and update centres, which too is working fine now.
The UIDAI said although the system has stabilised, monitoring is on to ensure that no inconvenience is caused to people.
Over 51 lakh people have been enrolled in the last nine days since the beginning of the upgrade process on August 20 this year at an average of 5.68 lakh enrolment per day. Authentication transactions have taken place as usual with an average of more than 5.3 crore authentications per
PAN-Aadhaar Linking last date: How to link Aadhaar with PAN online
Pan adhar linking-
The government of India has made it mandatory for the citizens to link their PAN cards with their
Aadhaar cards. While the government has given enough leeway, they have now announced that today, March 31, 2021is
the last date to link the two identity cards. In case a person fails to do so, their PAN cards will get inoperative starting April 1. This will affect customers as they will not be
allowed to carry out transactions wherever quoting of PAN is mandatory. Such customers may also face a penalty of Rs 1,000 as per the Finance Bill, 2021.
According to the new rule, the government has made it mandatory to furnish Aadhaar cardwhile applying for a new PAN card. In case of new PAN card applicants, interlinking is done automatically at the
Application stage.
For existing PAN cardholders, however, interlinking has to be done manually before the set deadline. PAN card holders are, therefore, advised to link PAN with Aadhaar to avoid any penalty.
Link PAN with Aadhaar via SMS
In case you do not have access to the internet, you can link your Aadhaar with PAN via an SMS. In order to do this, you will need to send an SMS to 567678 or 56161. In the text message, one
needs to type, ‘UIDAIPAN(12digit Aadhaar number) space (10 digit PAN Number).’