ANCHAL DHAR : Gurgaon, Thu May 30 2013, 00:59 hrs
Aiming to increase the enrolment rate at Aadhaar centres in Gurgaon, the district administration and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have deployed nearly 71 enrolment machines in the city.
According to official UIDAI figures, Gurgaon has an enrolment rate of 45 per cent, of which 32 per cent UID cards have been generated so far. This is in comparison to enrolment rates of nearly 100 per cent in Chandigarh, and over 80 per cent in Sonepat and Ambala, a senior UIDAI official said.
Keshni Anand Arora, Deputy Director General, Regional Chandigarh UIDAI office, said: "Haryana has recorded only 39 per cent [enrolment rate] as compared to Punjab's 75 per cent and Himachal Pradesh's [rate of] over 90 per cent."
UIDAI plans to double the number of enrolment machines by the end of June. The target is to cover the entire population of Gurgaon by December, Arora said.
According to a UIDAI official, there was a delay in enrolment because the Haryana government decided to start pilot projects in 2 or 3 blocks and then enrol those in four districts, first to see the response. The process led to a delay. But the government has now issued a new tender for state registrar and appointed a non-state registrar to speed up enrolment.
In an attempt to bridge the communication gap between the administration and residents, the presidents of all RWAs (Residents' Welfare Associations) were called in earlier this week for a meeting at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Gurgaon.
Sudhir Kapoor, general secretary, DLF RWA, expressed concerns over the slow process of issuing UID cards in Gurgaon. He said: "For the past two years, there have been cases where residents have not received UID cards. Besides, when we held a camp for our residential area last time... people from the regions nearby enrolled in our special camp, so we had to cater to them even though there wasn't enough manpower. But it led to a lot of queues and some residents couldn't be enrolled. A machine can only enrol 50 people or so. If the district administration is deciding to work with us, they have to provide us with facilities, that is more machines."