Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC: Know what it is, its uses and steps to generate offline Aadhaar

Aadhaar is a 12 digit individual identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Government of India. It is important for every individual to get an Aadhar as the number serves as a proof of identity and address, anywhere in India.

Similarly, Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC is a secure sharable document which can be used by any Aadhaar number holder for offline verification of Identification.

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A resident desirous of using this facility will have to generate his/her digitally signed Aadhaar details by accessing UIDAI resident portal.

The details will contain Name, Address, Photo, Gender, DOB, hash of registered Mobile Number, hash of registered Email Address and reference id which contains last 4 digits of Aadhaar Number followed by time stamp in a digitally signed XML.

It will provide Offline Aadhaar Verification facility to service providers/Offline Verification Seeking Entity (OVSE) without the need to collect or store Aadhaar number.

Who are the users of this Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC?

Any Aadhaar number holder who desires to establish his/her identity to any service provider (OVSE) using digitally signed XML downloaded from UIDAI website can be a user of this service. The service provider should have provisions of providing this Aadhaar Paperless Offline e-KYC at their facility and do the offline verification.

How to generate Offline Aadhaar?

Those who want to generate offline Aadhaar can follow the process given below:

Step 1: Go to URL https://resident.uidai.gov.in/offlineaadhaar.

Step 2: Enter ‘Aadhaar Number’ or ‘VID’ and mentioned ‘Security Code’ in screen, then click on ‘Send OTP’ or ‘Enter TOTP’.

Step 3: The OTP will be sent to the registered Mobile Number for the given Aadhaar number or VID. TOTP will be available on m-Aadhaar mobile Application of UIDAI.

Step 4: Enter the OTP received/TOTP.

Step 5: Enter a Share Code which be the password for the ZIP file and click on ‘Download’ button.

Step 6: The Zip file containing the digitally signed XML will be downloaded to device wherein the above mentioned steps have been performed.