{"id":947297,"date":"2025-07-17T07:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947297"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:07:00","slug":"uidai-deactivates-over-1-17-crore-aadhaar-numbers-of-deceased-to-curb-identity-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/uidai-deactivates-over-1-17-crore-aadhaar-numbers-of-deceased-to-curb-identity-misuse\/","title":{"rendered":"UIDAI deactivates over 1.17 crore Aadhaar numbers of deceased to curb identity misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UIDAI has started deactivating Aadhaar of deceased persons to prevent misuse of their identity proof, and disabled over 1.17 crore such unique 12-digit numbers till date, an official statement said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>As part of initiatives, the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) has started a new service &#8211; Reporting of Death of a Family Member &#8211; on the myAadhaar Portal for deaths registered in 24 states and Union Territories (UTs), to allow individuals to report the death of their family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UIDAI has started deactivating Aadhaar of deceased persons to prevent misuse of their identity proof, and disabled over 1.17 crore such unique 12-digit numbers till date, an official statement said on Wednesday. As part of initiatives, the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) has started a new service &#8211; Reporting of Death of a Family Member &#8211; on the myAadhaar Portal for deaths registered in 24 states and Union Territories (UTs), to allow individuals to report the death of their family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947297","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}