JANUARY 31ST 2011.
DC Correspondent
Jan. 30: Thanks to a software flaw, faulty details on lakhs of city dwellers are being fed into the Aadhar cards being prepared under Nandan Nilekani’s ambitious Unique Identification Project.
The enrolment software is unable to register certain particulars related to addresses in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area because of inadequate default settings.
New wards that are formed after expansion of the GHMC as well as certain pin codes are not present in Aadhar software. This has created problems for lakhs of people particularly those living in surrounding municipalities.
For instance the Aadhar application takes 500094 pincode as Trimulgherry of Hyderabad though it is of Sainikpuri in Ranga Reddy district. Likewise, 500056 of Ramakrishnapuram in Ranga Reddy is taken as Trimulgherry. Similarly, there is no ward number 136 in the application.
Alarmingly, the flawed data being fed into the UID card enrolment forms would also appear in the unique identification cards which would be the ‘master document’ for citizens in the future.
The commissioner of civil supplies, Mr Sanjay Jaju, however, said that these complaints had not come to his notice so far and he would verify them.