UIDAI update: Aadhaar card has become one of the most crucial documents required for availing several benefits offered under various state-backed programmes. However, one needs to update their information in order to continue receiving the benefits. For instance, a change in the address in Aadhaar Card can devoid citizens from receiving certain benefits.
Want to update the address in your Aadhaar card but don’t have address proof for the same? For the convenience of Aadhaar cardholders, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had allowed the facility to update the address in the absence of any proof. But, now as per the new UIDAI update, this service has been discontinued- tweeteed by UIDAI.
People seeking to change their address in their Aadhaar card will have to follow a new set of steps as UIDAI has discontinued its previous guideline. UIDAI said in a reply to a Twitter user that people have to provide proof of address or proof of residence now. It said that any one of the 32 mentioned documents can be used to change the address in Aadhaar cards.
It is to be noted that UIDAI has approved a list of specified documents to change your address in your Aadhaar card. Some of these documents include Passport, Bank Statement, Post Office Account Statement or Passbook, Voter ID, Driving License, Electricity and Telephone bills, Property Tax Receipt, Government Photo ID cards and others.
New steps to change address in Aadhaar card:
