The Government on Monday assured the Supreme Court that it will rectify problems faced by transgender people in linking Aadhaar numbers with PAN cards, allowing them to file their income tax returns seamlessly.
The Government’s counsel made the promise after a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra took up a petition complaining that transgender people were unable to carry out PAN-Aadhaar linkage due to a technical issue. Although transgender people have “third gender” identity cards, the PAN card database only recognises men and women. The resultant mismatch of information fed into the two documents has made it difficult to link them, the petitioner submitted.