Competition in Focus
Competition in Focus Competitionin focus The Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme on September 26, 2018 but imposed some restrictions on its use. The Supreme' Court observed that Aadhaar was meant to help the benefits reach the marginalised sections of society. Competitionin focus The bench sdid the scheme takes into account the dignity of people not only from personal but from the communitypoint of view as well and served the much bigger public interest. As a follow-up of the Supreme Court verdict, Competitionin focus the UIDAI made it clear in its communication to telecom services provides that they could no longer ash for Aadhaar number to issue new SIM cards or reverification of existing ones. The Supreme Court allowed linking of Aadhaar with Permanent Account 'Number' (PAN), Competition in focus which is mandatory for filing of income tax return (ITR). In other words, the court upheld the legality of Section 139AA...