While the petition challenging Aadhaar is still being heard by the Supreme Court, the government is continuing its drive to make it mandatory for more and more schemes. In its latest move in this drive, the government has issued a notification dated 15 February, 2018 asking all the postal life insurance (PLI) and rural postal life insurance (RPLI) policy holders to provide their Aadhaar details in their existing insurance policies. The notification also makes Aadhaar mandatory for all new insurance policies that will be issued in the future.
The notification says, "where Aadhaar number has not been assigned, the proposer/ insurant shall submit proof of application of enrolment of Aadhaar." An individual is required to submit his Aadhaar details to the Central Processing Centre (CPC)/ Post Office concerned.
