MUMBAI: Reliance Jio Infocomm ( Jio ) said it continues to do digital verification via Aadhaar till further instructions from telecom department .“eKYC is still on and we are awaiting DoT’s orders . We have submitted our exit plans to the UIDAI and there are frequent meetings held on this,” said Anshuman Thakur, head of strategy and planning for Jio.Electronic know your customer or popularly called eKYC is done via 12 digit unique identification number and the customer’s biometrics .The exit plan Thakur is referring to is the blueprint that the telcos submitted on October 15 on closing down their Aadhaar-based authentication systems in line with the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) orders.Last month, the biometric authority sent a letter to all telcos after the Supreme Court barred private companies from using Aadhaar to validate the identity of customers. ET has reported earlier that Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have also submitted their exit plans on Aadhaar based verification to UIDAI.Some telcos have written to the biometric authority that time needs to be given for alternate verification methods and that delinking Aadhaar as per the apex court’s orders would lead to more investments adding to their financial woes .For the operators, the apex court’s verdict put them in a flux since they were following DoT’s March circular, which recommended the use of Aadhaar for biometric verification for e-KYC. However, the Supreme Court struck it down, declaring it “unconstitutional” as it did “not meet 'necessity stage' and 'balancing stage' tests to check the primary menace” which is in the mind of the respondent authorities.Although Aadhaar-based KYC was voluntary, over 90% of new subscriptions were done through this route due to factors such as convenience, though some customers avoided it on fears around privacy and data leakage. More than 500 million, or about 50%, mobile phone users in the country have linked their Aadhaar to their phone number