EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT AADHAAR TO VERIFY, DATE OF BIRTH.

Employees provident fund organisation has said that EPFO will no longer accept Aadhaar to verify Date of Birth and the said organisation has said it will no longer use Aadhar as a valid document to verify the date of birth, in line with a direction to this effect by the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) . In this connection EPFO's circular of january 16 has stated that it has removed Aadhaar from the list of documents that will be considered valid for rectifying birth date errors and further more As per UIDAI's December 22 , Circular, Aadhar is only regarded as a valid document required for authenticating the identity of an individuals. UIDAI's Circular had also noted that several organisations including EPFO, have been accepting Aadhaar as a valid document for verifying the date of birth, which is not allowed as per the Aadhar Act, 2016.