Here's how to link your mobile number with Aadhaar sitting at home

March 31 is the last date: Here's how to link your mobile number with Aadhaar sitting at home

Steps :- Simple step to follow,

1.    Call on '14546' with your registered mobile number, the number that is linked to your Aadhaar card.

 

2.     The IVR will ask you if you are an Indian national or an NRI. Choose your option. Indian nationals need to press '1', NRIs are required to press '2'.

 

3.    After this you will be asked to give your consent to share your Aadhaar card number with the mobile service provider under the Aadhar Act. To give consent press '1'.

 

4.    In the next step, you need to share your 12-digit Aadhaar number. The IVR will repeat your Aadhaar number. To confirm, press '1', to re-enter press '2'.

 

5.    If the number is correct, you will be prompted to generate OTP by entering '1'.

 

6.    An OTP will now come to the mobile number shared in your Aadhaar card.

 

7.    To complete the Aadhaar re-verification process, enter the six-digit OTP. Remember, this OTP is valid for 30 minutes.

 

8.    You will be asked about the mobile numbers linked to this Aadhaar number.

 

9.    Users who have more than one number linked to their Aadhaar card can link them too by pressing on the digit '2'. Here again, you will need to keep the phone handy to receive OTP and finish the authentication process. 

 

10. User who have more than one number linked to their aadhaar card link them too ny pressing on digit '2'. Here again,you will need to keep the phone handy to receive OTP and finish the authentication precess.

 

11. Entering the OTP here is equivalent to your signature to re-verify your mobile number with Aadhaar card.

 

12. Once done, you will receive an SMS saying that your Aadhaar re-verification process has been successfully accepted and that you will receive an SMS asking for your confirmation after 26 hours. 

 

13. You will also get an e-mail on your registered ID from UIDAI, the nodal agency that issues Aadhaar number, confirming that your "Aadhaar number XXXXXXXXXXXX was used successfully to carry out Authentication using OTP." The message will also share information including date, time when the authentication was done.  

 

Note :

In case you haven't carried out the authentication process, and you have received this mail. You can call on toll-free number '1947' or forward this mail to 'help@uidai.gov.in