ByPriyanka Singh, TNN | Mar 3, 2013, 03.01 AM IST
LUCKNOW: In order to link Aadhaar cards with the National Population Register (NPR), the municipal agency is planning to roll out its bio-metric campaign in the city after March 15. The campaign targets to capture bio-metric details of every individual including photograph, fingerprint and image of the iris (eye) to be used for issuing a 'unique identification' to all.
Under the programme, LMC would be covering VIP areas first. The list includes the Governor, Mayor and residents of VIP colonies such as CSI Tower, Raj Bhawan colony, Gautam Palli area, etc. Zone 1 and zone 4 comprising areas with a large number of VIPs residing in them will be covered first, confirmed an LMC official.
NPR is comprehensive database to be maintained by the ministry of home affairs. It was initiated by GOI during the 'Housing Census' phase of Census 2011 from April 2010 to September 2010 with the objective of improved planning and efficient delivery of welfare services to residents of the country.
While conducting census of 2011, enumerators of LMC had handed over a receipt to every individual after filling in details of the NPR. The receipt was required to be submitted during the bio-metric data collection stage. Those left in the first phase may submit their filled in NPR forms to the enumerator this time in a phased programme likely to cover the entire city by year end.
Officer in charge of the campaign and additional municipal commissioner PK Srivastava said, "Some people may have got transferred while others might have newly joined the family, hence, there is a probability of them being left out in 2011. Our enumerator will go to every house this time and ensure that all members are covered in NPR database." He added, those who had already filled in NPR forms would be required to visit nearest camp in the colony to for bio-metric capturing and those not listed in NPR database will have to wait for next 21 days and visit the camp in their colony during the second phase. LMC expects around 28 lakh persons in Lucknow to benefit under the campaign. The camps would be organised in a place in every area like a community center, primary school, marriage hall, etc and the resident would be required to walk in with any identity card in original like passport, PAN card, voter ID card, or ration card.
The execution comprises two parts-the technical part includes arranging for the required number of machineries, computer systems and data-entry operators for the campaign. This has been outsourced to ITI (Indian Telephone Industries) of Rae Bareli. The second aspect involves administrative work for which LMC would be appointing a large number of enumerators to do an extensive survey of the city to be used for maintaining NPR database and issuing Aadhaar cards to residents. Till date, around 50,000 have been issued Aadhaar cards in Lucknow. Those who have already been issued cards don't need to give bio-metric details again, but need to report at the camp to enroll for NPR database. Officials said this was an attempt to link NPR with UIDAI programme. LMC has issued orders to its zonal officers to start appointing enumerators for this purpose and preferably those who had participated earlier in the census of 2011.