How to link your mobile number with Aadhaar card? Here's everything that you need to know.

 To forestall fraudsters, tax criminals, lawbreakers, or psychological militants who secure SIM cards by giving phoney archives, the public authority has commanded connecting Aadhaar Card with your cell phone number. 

You can interface your cell phone number with Aadhaar and re-check it through a one-time secret key (OTP)- based technique, a specialist helped verification or IVR office. Aside from a self-validated duplicate of the Aadhaar Card, no different reports are required. The check is liberated from cost. 

The cycle is something similar for paid ahead of time just as post-paid associations. For the disconnected strategy, while the prepaid clients should visit a retailer, the post-paid ones should visit the store of the concerned administrator.

Steps to Link Aadhaar with Mobile Number through OTP :

Step 1: Dial 14546* from your mobile number
Step 2: Choose from the two residential status (Indian or NRI)
Step 3: Give your consent to re-verify Aadhaar by pressing 1
Step 4: Enter your 12-digit Aadhaar number and confirm it by pressing 1
Step 5: An OTP is generated and sent to the registered mobile number
Step 6: Give consent to your operator to access your name, photo and DOB from UIDAI
Step 7: IVR reads out the last 4 digits of your mobile number
Step 8: If correct, enter the OTP received
Step 9: Press 1 to complete the process.

Steps to Link Aadhaar with Mobile Number by visiting a store:

Step 1: Provide the number you wish to link with your Aadhaar number.

Step 2: The executive at the store will send an OTP to the mobile number.

Step 3: Show the OTP to the store executive.

Step 4: Provide your fingerprints via the biometric scanner at the store.

Step 5: After providing the required details, your network provider will send a confirmation SMS to your mobile number.

Step 6: Send ‘Y’ as a reply to the SMS to complete the e-KYC. 

When you visit the store, to link a mobile number to the Aadhar card online, do not forget the carry a self-attested photocopy of your Aadhaar card. 

Linking Aadhaar to Mobile Number FAQs

Q. Can we link Aadhaar number with mobile number online?

A. Presently, there is no arrangement for connecting Aadhaar with sim cards on the web. In any case, you can do it disconnected, through IVR or through OTP. 

Q. What is the fee for mobile verification with Aadhaar?

A. Portable endorsers are not charged by the telecom administrators for the check of versatile number with Aadhaar. It is liberated from cost. 

Q. How to add mobile number in Aadhaar card?

A.You can enlist your versatile number with Aadhar card by visiting an Enrolment Center and presenting the structure. An expense of ₹ 30 must be submitted and no records are needed for this reason. 

Q. I have already submitted Aadhar card as address proof at the time of purchasing a sim card. Should I do this process again?

A. Those portable numbers that were given after the biometric check will not be responsible to interface Aadhaar. Just those clients will fall in this classification that had decided on e-KYC by Aadhaar-based check by giving the biometric information (thumb impression) at the hour of applying for the association. For every other person, they need to complete the confirmation once more. 

Q. Are there facilities for senior citizens and specially enabled?

A. The public authority has requested that telecom administrators give offices to senior residents and extraordinarily empowered to interface with Aadhaar by sending their delegates to their home. 

Q.  Is the Aadhaar based e-KYC verification process for all customers?

A. All clients need to get their portable numbers connected with Aadhaar to forestall deactivation. 

Q. I do not have an Aadhaar card. What should I do now to avoid disconnections?

A. You can apply for Aadhaar now and get it made and afterwards interface it with your versatile before the cutoff time closes.