Govt plans to make Aadhaar authentication easier through the mobile app

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With the rise in Aadhaar Payments using the biometric ID, the government is planning to make Aadhaar authentication easier through the mAadhaar app, reports the Economic Times.

A government official told the paper that over 148.3 crore Aadhaar authentications, i.e. using the ID, were made last month. August recorded a little over 100 crore such transactions.

With more than 31 crore OTP (One Time Password) transactions recorded in the recent past, the government plans to make all Aadhaar authentications based on OTPs.

One of the major issues UIDAI faced was poor network which delayed the delivery of OTP to the registered mobile number. Sometimes, passwords were not delivered due to this issue.

The mAadhaar app seeks to eliminate this problem by not depending on mobile networks. The app has a time-based OTP (TOTP), which will be available for 30 seconds before changing to a new TOTP and will save people the trouble of waiting for an OTP to arrive.