In a unique achievement for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), at least 100 entities have successfully onboarded as Offline Verification Seeking Entities (OVSEs) within three months of rollout. This milestone marks a major advancement in enabling secure, consent-based, and paperless verification through the Aadhaar offline mechanism, empowering both service providers and people.

 

The Ministry of Electronics informed that these entities are from diverse fields like government departments at both the centre and states, fintech players, event management organisations, education and exam-related entities, among others.

 

The Ministry added that their integration into the Aadhaar Offline Verification ecosystem is expected to significantly improve service delivery timelines, reduce operational friction, and lower costs associated with physical document handling and manual verification processes.

 

The Ministry also informed that by leveraging Aadhaar Offline Verification methods such as QR code-based verification and secure digitally signed documents, these entities will now be able to ‘Show, Share, and Verify’ identity information without requiring real-time connectivity to UIDAI’s central database.

 

It added that this distributed model ensures resilience, scalability, and security, empowering people to have control over their own information and with whom and how much they wish to share voluntarily.

 

‘Offline verification’ refers to the framework that enables entities to perform Offline Verification of Aadhaar number holder for identity verification without connecting to the UIDAI’s Central Identity Data Repository. It allows secure, consent-based, and offline identity verification.