{"id":927113,"date":"2025-05-01T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927113"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:37:00","slug":"sc-mandates-inclusive-digital-kyc-process-for-persons-with-disabilities-right-to-digital-access-part-of-article-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/sc-mandates-inclusive-digital-kyc-process-for-persons-with-disabilities-right-to-digital-access-part-of-article-21\/","title":{"rendered":"SC mandates inclusive digital KYC process for persons with disabilities &#8211; \u2018Right to digital access part of Article 21\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on April 30 directed the revision of the digital Know-Your-Customer (KYC) norms to enable persons with facial disfiguration due to acid attacks or visual impairment to Access banking and e-governance services.<\/p>\n<p>Legal news website LiveLaw reported that Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan emphasised in the judgement, that the state has an obligation to design an inclusive digital ecosystem that is accessible to all, including marginalised and vulnerable persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on April 30 directed the revision of the digital Know-Your-Customer (KYC) norms to enable persons with facial disfiguration due to acid attacks or visual impairment to Access banking and e-governance services. Legal news website LiveLaw reported that Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan emphasised in the judgement, that the state has an obligation to design an inclusive digital ecosystem that is accessible to all, including marginalised and vulnerable persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}