Overview
- Maharashtra issued a 16-point verification plan, ordering immediate cancellation of certificates created solely on Aadhaar and withdrawal of Naib Tehsildar orders issued after the August 11, 2023 amendment.
- Officials in Maharashtra must file FIRs for any mismatch between applications and Aadhaar DOB data, recover original certificates, delete faulty entries from the Civil Registration System, and hold special verification camps.
- The state named 14 hotspots for intensified checks, including Amravati, Akola, Sillod, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Latur, Parbhani, Beed, Jalna, Gevrai, Anjangaon Surji, Achalpur, Pusad, Ardhapur and Parli.
- Uttar Pradesh’s Planning Department directed all departments to stop accepting Aadhaar as proof of birth or date of birth, referencing a UIDAI Lucknow letter dated October 31, 2025.
- Context to the directives includes UIDAI’s recent deactivation of more than two crore Aadhaar numbers of deceased individuals to improve database accuracy.