How to link Aadhaar Card to Mobile Number via OTP

Digital India official Twitter handle tweeted " DigitalIdentity service made easy | @UIDAI (Aadhaar) has issued directives for generating OTP either through the service provider's
website or through the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services to facilitate the linking, also known as re-verification."

Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has already issued instructions to all operators to verify all existing mobile subscribers (Prepaid and Postpaid) through Aadhaar based E-KYC process on or before 31.03.2018.

How to link Aadhaar Card to Mobile Number via OTP :>

• Call 14546 from your mobile number 
• On being asked whether an Indian or an NRI, choose the respective option 
• IVR process will then ask for your consent to link Aadhaar card number with your mobile number by pressing 1 
• Post that mobile subscribers will be required to provide their 12-digit Aadhaar number and press 1 to confirm. In case your Aadhaar input was incorrect, you get another option to provide the Aadhaar 
• An OTP will be generated and sent to your mobile 
• Next, IVR process will require your mobile number after which you will have to give consent to your mobile operator to pick your personal details like name, photo, and date of birth from their records 
• After giving consent, IVR will now read the last four digits of your mobile number to re-confirm your provided number 
• Once, the re-confirmation is done, users can provide the OTP received via SMS 
• After entering the OTP, you will be required to press 1 to complete the process. IVR will then mention that the Aadhaar-based mobile number re-verification process was successful. 

After the steps are done from your side an SMS will be received to the Mobile Number for Re-verification was successful and it will take up to 48 hours to complete the linking.