Rahul Chhabra, NEW DELHI, March 18, 2015, DHNS
Permanent Aadhaar card registration centres will soon open in all the revenue districts of Delhi to accept fresh applications for the unique identification number and deal with problems related to corrections, sources said.
These centres are also being seen as the future solution for one-stop facility for issuing permanent account number card, passport, domicile and residence certificate, said an official.
At present, there are about three dozen vendors handling the task of making Aadhaar cards in different districts.
These private vendors are given contracts for functioning in a particular area for about one year and are then shifted to a new area.
The new Aadhar centres would be permanent, located at Delhi government’s revenue offices.
The Delhi government has signed an agreement with an e-governance company, CSC e-governance Services India Limited, for setting up these 11 centres.
The centres will undertake corrections in Aadhaar cards for a nominal fee.
“But new Aadhaar card application will be processed free of charge,” said an official in his statement
The 11 new centres will also help people who have lost their Aadhaar card registration slip and those who have got themselves registered but have not yet received their unique identification number, he said.
The centres will change information given by people in the earlier round of registration, and also cover children who were less than five-year-old and excluded from the biometric data collection drive earlier.
Updating the previously given information will cost Rs 15 each and re-registration in cases the earlier slip has been lost will cost Rs 10, said an official from the north district revenue department office where the service has already started as a pilot project.
After meetings with officials of the North East District and Central District on Monday, the officials of the e-governance company are confident of launching the facility in these districts in the coming days.
The success of the experiment will determine if the number of these facilities will be increased in the coming days and new centres opened in all the 30-odd sub-divisions in the capital.
These centres are also being seen as the future solution for one-stop facility for issuing permanent account number card, passport, domicile and residence certificate, said an official.
At present, there are about three dozen vendors handling the task of making Aadhaar cards in different districts.
These private vendors are given contracts for functioning in a particular area for about one year and are then shifted to a new area.
The new Aadhar centres would be permanent, located at Delhi government’s revenue offices.
The Delhi government has signed an agreement with an e-governance company, CSC e-governance Services India Limited, for setting up these 11 centres.
The centres will undertake corrections in Aadhaar cards for a nominal fee.
“But new Aadhaar card application will be processed free of charge,” said an official in his statement
The 11 new centres will also help people who have lost their Aadhaar card registration slip and those who have got themselves registered but have not yet received their unique identification number, he said.
The centres will change information given by people in the earlier round of registration, and also cover children who were less than five-year-old and excluded from the biometric data collection drive earlier.
Updating the previously given information will cost Rs 15 each and re-registration in cases the earlier slip has been lost will cost Rs 10, said an official from the north district revenue department office where the service has already started as a pilot project.
After meetings with officials of the North East District and Central District on Monday, the officials of the e-governance company are confident of launching the facility in these districts in the coming days.
The success of the experiment will determine if the number of these facilities will be increased in the coming days and new centres opened in all the 30-odd sub-divisions in the capital.
