SALEM, January 28, 2015
Updated: January 28, 2015 05:35 IST
STAFF REPORTER
Residents picket the Hasthampatti Zonal office seeking application forms to enrol for Aadhaar card, in Salem on Tuesday.— PHOTO: P. GOUTHAM
Demanding that application for enrolling for Aadhaar card be supplied, more than 100 residents picketed the corporation’s Hasthampatti Zonal office here on Tuesday.
Residents said that though the government is making Aadhaar number mandatory for obtaining various benefits, they were not being given an opportunity to enrol for getting the Aadhaar number.
Schedule for enrolment in other wards was given and the process is initiated. But there is no communication from the zone for us for enrolment, they added.
As soon as they picketed the office, the police were informed.
The police pacified the residents and assured that the issue would be sorted that. Officials said that forms for enrolment are yet to arrive and it would be distributed to them later. Residents wanted a date to be fixed for distribution of forms and officials said that they would notify them. Later they left the premises.