Improving security while connecting Aadhar with PAN

Aadhar has been one of the spectacular tool for the government to pass on benefits to actual end users, and also to weed out the ghost accounts, and there is no 2 thought’s about it. The government has benefited a lot too, since there is no leakage in subsidies the government is saving insanely.

However latest development have shown that there are a lot of security concerns and issues, and these can be tackled easily if we follow the below mentioned methods.

- Sharing of Aadhar with Financial institutions, and linking PAN with Aadhar

o This is the right move, however implementation is very cumbersome. The government could have informed all the Institutions to connect with Income Tax Department directly, since by now most of the people have linked their pan with Aadhar. The next step could have been that, the government on its part while sharing the Aadhar number with financial institutions, they could have masked some portion. This would protect the identity of the people, as well as it could have served the purpose of connecting pan with Aadhar in all financial institutions. So literally, people running helter skelter to get their Aadhar connecting with PAN would have been avoided. Ex. If the Aadhar No. is 1234 6789 9870 then the gov. could have shared it as 1234 XXXX 9870

o Now that the process of linking Aadhar with PAN has already started, what can be done? Well the government can still emphasize on how to store the Aadhar number in various institutions, stating that some of the numbers should be masked, when anyone is trying to access or even view the Number.

These are only some of the ways that the government can protect the identity of a person. There are even better ways that we can adopt to improve the security of individuals, which the government can explore.