Jaipur: Now a rath to strengthen your Aadhaar
Friday, Dec 27, 2013, 14:12 IST | Place: Jaipur | Agency: DNA
Chariots will be used to propagate the Unique ID scheme across the state.
You may soon see a ‘rath’ (chariots) albeit a non-political one in your localities propagating the benefits of having Aadhaar card.
Concerned over the slow enrolment of Aadhaar card in the state, department of information technology has decided to rope in vehicles which will be canvassing for the UIDAI scheme in the state.
Officials of department of information and technology said that the response to the enrolment for Aadhaar to avail direct benefit cash transfer is very slow in the state and as a result this innovative idea of using raths has been devised.
“There is 61 per cent enrolment for Aadhaar in the state and not many people are coming forward to avail subsidies through direct cash benefit transfer therefore we thought of this idea of roping in raths to propagate about Aadhaar,” said a senior official associated with UIDAI scheme in the state. These raths will have loudspeakers; CD players etc fitted on it and will be playing the messages and information on how and where to apply for Aadhaar card. It will stop at various places in the city and will do a kind of road show distributing information booklets on the benefits of this scheme.
As of now only two raths will be hired for this purpose but in coming months many more such chariots will be deployed by the department.
The initiative has been taken after seeing cold response of the people towards Aadhaar scheme.
Initially the response was much slower with people not even coming to Aadhaar enrolment camps. Now while in urban areas more and more people are coming, in rural areas people are yet not aware about this scheme, said the officials.
Action plan
26% and 25% people in Jaisalmer and Dholpur respectively have enrolled themselves for Aadhaar which is one of the lowest in the state. In urban areas like Ajmer enrolment have crossed 90% while in Jaipur 61% people have got themselves enrolled so far.
Concerned over the slow enrolment of Aadhaar card in the state, department of information technology has decided to rope in vehicles which will be canvassing for the UIDAI scheme in the state.
Officials of department of information and technology said that the response to the enrolment for Aadhaar to avail direct benefit cash transfer is very slow in the state and as a result this innovative idea of using raths has been devised.
“There is 61 per cent enrolment for Aadhaar in the state and not many people are coming forward to avail subsidies through direct cash benefit transfer therefore we thought of this idea of roping in raths to propagate about Aadhaar,” said a senior official associated with UIDAI scheme in the state. These raths will have loudspeakers; CD players etc fitted on it and will be playing the messages and information on how and where to apply for Aadhaar card. It will stop at various places in the city and will do a kind of road show distributing information booklets on the benefits of this scheme.
As of now only two raths will be hired for this purpose but in coming months many more such chariots will be deployed by the department.
The initiative has been taken after seeing cold response of the people towards Aadhaar scheme.
Initially the response was much slower with people not even coming to Aadhaar enrolment camps. Now while in urban areas more and more people are coming, in rural areas people are yet not aware about this scheme, said the officials.
Action plan
26% and 25% people in Jaisalmer and Dholpur respectively have enrolled themselves for Aadhaar which is one of the lowest in the state. In urban areas like Ajmer enrolment have crossed 90% while in Jaipur 61% people have got themselves enrolled so far.