Civil society networks like Right to Food Campaign and National Alliance of Peoples Movement are steering the campaign.

The UIDAI wrote to banks after it received legal opinion on the matter, in the wake of a recent Supreme Court verdict that restricted the use of Aadhaar by private entities but cleared it for welfare schemes.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had asked telecom companies to submit the plans by October 15 after the Supreme Court's September ruling that private companies can no longer use Aadhaar data.