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By our Staff Reporter
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The Unique Identification Authority (UIDA) of India is issuing AADHAAR cards among all citizens of the country. AADHAAR cards, according to the scheme launched by the UPA Government at the Centre, will be considered the key document for all citizens of the country for availing all facilities like subsidies, MGNRGA etc.
Talking to newsmen in the city today, UIDA deputy director general LK Pegu made no comment on the abysmal delay in enumeration and issuance of AADHAAR cards in Assam. He only said that the work was going on only in the district headquarters of Goalpara, Nagaon and Sonitpur.
According to Pegu, the progress of works is 26.19 per cent in Mizoram, 6.07 per cent in Arunachal Pradesh and just 0.04 per cent in Meghalaya.
Pegu further said: “The work is directly done by the UIDA in Tripura and Sikkim. The progress of the work in the two states is smooth. However, in other states of the Northeast, the work is being done under the Register General of India (RGI). Since the RGI doesn’t do the job itself, it has engaged various departments in various states as nodal agencies. In Assam the department that works as the nodal agency for enumeration and issuance of AADHAAR cards is the Political Department.”
Lagging behind others continues to remain the hall mark for Assam, nicknamed as the ‘land of lahe lahe’. Everybody wants to retain ‘a distinction of pride’ and tries to pass the legacy to the posterity. However, Assam has been passing ‘a distinction of a sort’ to the posterity, for generations. Will the trend ever change?