Through SMS Check How Many Mobile Numbers Linked With Your Aadhaar: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has asked all telecom companies to provide such facilities to their customers so that they can know which of their mobile SIM linked with their Aadhaar card (UID). The Authority believes that the possibility of unauthorized use of SIM can be overcome by this initiative. Such incidents have occurred before the authority that agents of some retailers, operators and telecom companies are misusing the Aadhar Card number to issue new SIMs, reissue numbers, and they are issuing SIM from it to another person or the other are verifying.
The authority has warned the telecommunications companies that they should ensure that their retailers or agents do not make any kind of issue like this. Telecom companies have been asked to start this new facility by March 15. Under this facility, users will be able to know through SMS whether their mobile number is linked to the Aadhaar card or not. In the same way, they will also know how many mobile numbers are released or verified on their Aadhaar number.
Ajay Bhushan, CEO of the Authority, told that all telecom companies have been asked to provide this service to their customers by March 15th. Let us tell you that there has been a nomination of more than 1.2 billion people in the country. The UID card is a specific number of 12 digits. Significantly, the last date for linking bank account, financial services and mobile network service provider is to March 31st.