TNN | Aug 29, 2015, 12.30 AM IST
CHENNAI: About 83.36% of people in Tamil Nadu have registered for Aadhaar, with Perambalur district recording the maximum coverage of 98% in the state. Chennai has been slow with 75.65% residents opting for Aadhaar so far and the coverage in Tirupur district has been the lowest at 72.74%.
Census department joint director M R V Krishna Rao said 5.62 crore people have given their biometric and 5.23 crore have received Aadhaar cards. The state Census directorate now plans to target students at their schools. In many cases, parents have given their biometrics and Aadhaar has been generated, but, many children have been left out as they were in schools.
The Census directorate is awaiting school education department's approval to commence work across the state. "There are around 1.34 students in Tamil Nadu. Of this, nearly 60 lakh students don't have Adhaar card. In most cases their parents have the aadhaar registration and have included the names of their children in the form but have not given the biometrics," said Rao.
Census department teams would visit schools in villages and get the students to give the required details. "There are more than 20,000 schools in the state and it is not possible to visit each and every school. Thus we will be going a school in an area and ask all other schools to bring their students for biometrics. Children from 5 years can register for Aadhaar," said Rao.