 "sim card verification")
As Supreme Court has prohibited use of Aadhaar as a medium for instant verification of sim cards, authorities have proposed a mobile application to meet the purpose.
According to a joint statement released by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the application would require photographing of customer and their identifaction documents to generate an one-time password.
This OTP will be used by the SIM card agent for instant verification.
"In the proposed process, a live photograph of a person with latitude, longitude, and time stamp will be captured, along with the photograph in the
