Railway Recruitment Board: Aadhaar cards now mandatory for
application
The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced that candidates
must use their Aadhaar cards as identity proof. This has been made
mandatory to prevent any attempts at impersonation. Anyone who wishes
to apply for a job through RRB and does not have an Aadhaar card should
visit Aadhaar Enrolment centers and have them made. This new norm has will be enforced in all future railway recruitments. The board said that applicants must furnish their 12-digit Aadhaar
number or 28-digit Aadhaar registration receipt while filling application
forms. Biometric attendance systems will be set up during exams to
collect and match the candidates’ fingerprints with those stored in the
Aadhaar cards. The board announced that this would make the verification process
convenient and hassle free. The process comes under the Aadhaar Act
which came into effect from September 14, 2016. “Section 57 of the
Aadhaar Act permits the use of Aadhaar number for establishing the
identity of an individual for any purpose pursuant to any law or any
contract to this effect,” the RRB said in an official release. Three states (Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya ans Assam), however, have been exempt from this rule. Candidates from these states will have
to enter a valid passport number, voter-ID card number or any other
government approved identity card number while filling out the
application form. Applicants from all other states will compulsorily have
to provide their Aadhaar numbers in order to be eligible for any job
through the RRB.
