The government today launched three Aadhaar-based services to authenticate beneficiaries before delivering services to them . The services are authentication using the iris, one time pin received on registered mobile number and e-KYC ( Know Your Customer.

Besides these, aadhaar kendra permanent enrolment centres will come up to facilitate enrolment of residents left out during camps organised by registrars of Unique Identification Authority of India, UIDAI, in the past.

Launching the services in New Delhi, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the Aadhaar identity platform will infuse greater efficiency in the present services delivery system.

Mr Ahluwalia said the digitised list of beneficiaries through
Aadhaar will ensure that the benefits reach them directly without any
intermediaries. He said the government will get fiscal savings by
reaching benefits to only the eligible people of the welfare schemes.

UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani said the authority will now scale up enrolment to achieve the target of enrolling 600 million residents by 2014. Over 400 million residents have enrolled for an aadhaar number so far while about 350 millions number have been issued.

Our correspondent reports, authentication using the iris is a process in which the iris image collected during enrolment will be matched with a fresh iris scan to verify it. Similarly, the one time pin will verify the registered mobile number given at the time of enrolment.

The e-KYC service will enable individuals to authorise service providers to receive electronic copy of biometric and demographic data
while the Aadhaar kendra permanent enrolment centres will also serve as update centres for residents who want to update the data.