The Unique Identification Authority of India- UIDAI has called upon on schools across the country to ensure timely Aadhaar Mandatory Biometric Updates-MBU for Children in the age group of 5 to 15 years. In a statement, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar has also written to all the Chief Secretaries of states and union territories apprising them of the initiative and requesting them to support in conducting targeted MBU camps. The Ministry said that UIDAI and the Ministry of Education have also collaborated to facilitate pending MBU in Aadhaar on the Unified District Information System for Education Plus platform for nearly 17 Crore Children.
Unified District Information System for Education Plus is an educational management information system under the Department of School Education and Literacy, and captures various statistics related to school education. This joint initiative from UIDAI and the Department of School Education is expected to go a long way towards providing ease of updating the biometrics of children.
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