1215 - Half of Mysore district enrolled for UID number

Half of Mysore district enrolled for UID number
Staff Correspondent

Officials told to complete project by June 30.

GP heads, officials participate in workshop on their role in the enrolment process

Guide: Mysore Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer G. Satyavathi releasing a booklet on Aadhaar in Mysore on Monday. Principal Secretary, e-Governance, M.N. Vidyashankar (centre), and chief executive officer D.S. Ravindran are seen.
 

MYSORE: Elected representatives from Mysore district attended a workshop on ‘The role of elected representatives in the Aadhaar enrolment process' here on Monday.
The programme was organised by the district administration and the Department of e-Governance here.
More than 700 participants, including presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries and development officers of gram panchayats participated in it.

Principal Secretary, e-Governance, M.N. Vidyashankar, who inaugurated the workshop, said Mysore district had achieved 50 per cent enrolment in the project. Karnataka was ahead of other States in its implementation; nearly 22 lakh of the 30 lakh people enrolled for the Unique Identity (UID) numbers were from the State, he said.
 

June 30 is the deadline to cover the remaining residents in the district so that Mysore may be the first “UID-enrolled district” in the country, he said.
 

“We are hoping to reach the target of enrolling the remaining residents by May or June,” chief executive officer of the e-Governance Department D.S. Ravindran said.
 

Until April 10, 14.57 lakh residents of Mysore district have been enrolled for the UID number.
 

Speaking after releasing a booklet on Aadhaar, zilla panchayat chief executive officer G. Satyavathi said Aadhaar would become a key identity number.