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We are not trusted any more

posted by Laxminarayan Gopal on Wednesday, January 10, 2018

My fellow NRIs
Our wonderful Government has finally come out with some rules for us NRIs to continue holding our Indian sim cards without aadhaar registration. The Indian Embassy has posted these on their website.

You must upload copies of visa, passport and your colored photograph on the website of the service provider in the special menu for NRIs (I visited the Vodafone India website and found no such menu link.)

You must make various declarations that the documents uploaded by you are authentic and if found forged action will be taken against you.

You must fill in various details online.

Then you must have a "Trusted person" in India who will presumably take responsibility for you. This TP must have an Aadhaar card and he has to do undergo a e-KYC procedure and so on and so on and so on.

The list of instructions runs into two full pages.

And if the Aadhaar details provided by the subscriber are found to be incorrect it will be treated as a fraudulent activity.

On the other hand a foreign national applying for an Indian sim (or to retain his existing sim) need have no TP to authenticate him. Foreign nationals have it relatively easier.

Is it worth being an NRI? Is it worth clinging on to an Indian sim card. You decide!

PS: The Hindutvans, the Hypers and the Chachas must be applauding these steps. Hope their TPs refuse to be TPs for them.

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