Jio Monsoon Hungama Offer



At the company’s 41st Annual General Meeting held on 5th July. The company had also introduced the Monsoon Hungama Offer. Now, this offer is live and available to everyone across India. Under this offer, consumers can buy the JioPhone at an effective price of ?501 by exchanging their old working feature phone. Additionally, the ?501 is also a 100% refundable security deposit and which will be returned at the end of 3 years.



How to Exchange the Phone?



Visit any Jio store or Authorized Jio retailer

Handover your old working feature phone and charger

Submit the Aadhaar number as a proof of identity

Buy a JioPhone by paying ?501

Recharge the Jio number with any special tariff plan – ?49, ?99, ?153, ?501







Special Recharge Plan : -



Along with the Monsoon Hungama Offer, Jio has also introduced a special tariff plan wherein user will get Unlimited Voice and Data for 6 months on paying ?594 at the time of activation. Additionally, buyers will also get a special exchange bonus of 6GB data voucher worth ?101. Apart from the ?594 plan, Jio has also announced the ?99 plan with unlimited free voice, 500MB data/day and 300 SMS for 28 days. The ?49 plan will give you 1GB data for 49 days and ?153 plan will offer 42GB of 4G data for 28 days.

UIDAI revokes e-KYC services for some e-wallets – More details here



The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had classified entities as local and global authentication user agencies when it came to accessing Aadhaar database.



Now, based on feedback and security audits,

it has been found that not all mobile wallets have the required security protocols to protect their database.







This is the reason that 90% of all mobile wallets have been banned from accessing Aadhaar database, and now, they will have to rely on other means and sources to complete KYC of their users.



UIDAI, the nodal authority on Aadhaar has issued a letter last month, which stated ” Some entities required to verify clients with Aadhaar number may not have the requisite security systems needed to use or store these numbers and have been precluded from the list of global AUAs.”



According above statements Mobile Wallets apps like Mobikwik, PhonePe, and others won’t be able to use Aadhaar for KYC. Paytm is not banned from accessing the Aadhaar database, as UIDAI is satisfied with their security protocols.



Users can use virtual AAdhaar card number to do the authentications for KYC.