MANGALURU, April 24, 2015
RAGHAVA M.
Issued in 2013, it took two years to reach the right place
Around 20 Aadhaar cards had an intrepid two-year journey before they reached their rightful owners. Issued in August and November 2013, they landed up in a scrap yard in Bellare village, near Sullia in Dakshina Kannada recently.
Fortunately, Manikara, a scrap dealer, found them wrapped up in newspaper among a pile of junk on April 16 and contacted the Postal Department. They belonged to residents of Amarapadnuru village that is served by the Chokkadi sub-post office.
Manikara took the help of a local reporter to contact the Bellare post office.
T.G. Naik, Senior Superintendent of Posts, Puttur, told The Hindu that the scrap dealer was told to hand over all the cards to the Bellare post office. “We arranged to despatch the cards to the card-holders on April 20,” Mr. Naik said. The department has since suspended postman Girish, who has been working at the Chokkadi post office for the past one year.
Mr. Naik said the Chokkadi post office serves a vast area and it is customary for the post office to ask Aadhaar card-holders to collect the cards from the post office itself. He said the cards had been sent by ordinary post from Manipal where they are printed.
The Inspector of Posts, Sullia, has been asked to submit a report on the incident within 15 days.
Issued in 2013, it
took two years to reach the right place