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You are not bound to share Aadhaar details with schools but here is what that will entail.

If you have a child studying in a school in India right now, chances are that the school has asked you to share your Aadhaar details along with that of your child. Technically, you have the choice to not share this information, even though it may prove difficult to do so. But before you opt out of it, you should factor in the possible repercussions.
The easiest thing to do would be to give in and provide your details to the school. But by doing that, there is a good chance that you might be risking your and your child’s …

Co-founders Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari made Physics Wallah the company it is today by keeping their focus on the digital media, test-prep business. With fresh funds at its disposal after the IPO, it is making the mistake of believing it is an education company.
Even though the government of India did a U-turn on the mandatory pre-installation of the anti-fraud app on all mobile phones sold or imported in the country, the larger problem of petty cybercrime remains grim.
The Department of Telecommunications’ directive that every smartphone come pre-installed with the app follows a familiar pattern of ‘optional’ tools that turn mandatory in practice.