{"id":989978,"date":"2026-02-05T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989978"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:55:39","slug":"govt-deactivates-2-5-crore-aadhaar-ids-of-deceased-to-avoid-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/govt-deactivates-2-5-crore-aadhaar-ids-of-deceased-to-avoid-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt deactivates 2.5 crore Aadhaar IDs of deceased to avoid fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): In a move to protect the integrity of the world&#8217;s largest biometric identity system, the government has deactivated over 2.5 crore Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. <\/p>\n<p>This massive clean-up effort, aimed at maintaining an accurate database, was confirmed by the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Jitin Prasada, in a submission to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): In a move to protect the integrity of the world&#8217;s largest biometric identity system, the government has deactivated over 2.5 crore Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. This massive clean-up effort, aimed at maintaining an accurate database, was confirmed by the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Jitin Prasada, in a submission to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989978","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=989978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}