TNN | Feb 7, 2013, 02.28 AM IST
HYDERABAD: After all the panic over the February 15 deadline for getting the Aadhaar-linked cooking gas subsidy, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) officials said here on Wednesday that the centre had never imposed such a deadline and that it were the oil companies who triggered the panic by publishing advertisements in newspapers to this effect.
UIDAI deputy director-general M V S Rami Reddy said "There was no official communication from the central government to the state government about any deadline. The gas companies, perhaps on the directive of the petroleum ministry, issued advertisements in the print media which triggered the panic."
Meanwhile, the UIDAI has asked the department of posts not to deliver the Aadhaar cards via Speed Post but deliver the same by ordinary mail. "We stopped delivering the Aadhaar cards by Speed Post from January 2013," Karuna Pillai, chief post master general of AP told TOI. This would mean that the Aadhaar cards cannot be tracked, as was the case with Speed Post, and could result in many of the cards getting lost in transit.