Only 48 hours remain before the December 31, 2025 deadline for a targeted group of PAN holders to replace an Aadhaar Enrolment ID (AEID) with their permanent Aadhaar number — and the practical consequences of missing that deadline are immediate and real for those affected. Background / Overview...
The countdown is real: the government’s targeted rule requiring certain PAN holders to intimate their Aadhaar number ends on December 31, 2025, and any PAN that remains unlinked under that specific rule set will be treated as inoperative from January 1, 2026. This is not a blanket extension for...
December 31, 2025 is the hard stop for a narrowly defined — but consequential — group of PAN holders to replace any Aadhaar Enrolment ID recorded against their PAN with the actual 12‑digit Aadhaar number; failure to do so risks the PAN being marked inoperative from January 1, 2026 and could...