10026 - Special Aadhaar camp for children begins today - The Hindu

KOZHIKODE, May 23, 2016

Special Aadhaar camp for children begins today

STAFF REPORTER

The two-day panchayat-level Aadhaar enrolment camps planned by Akshaya for children under six years will begin in the district on Monday.

The special camps are being conducted in around 40 select locations within the limits of various grama panchayats.

The camp, organised under the supervision of the district administration, will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parents can produce their Aadhaar card and the birth certificate of the children to complete the enrolment procedures.

The grama panchayat halls in Ulliyeri, Perumanna, Unnikulam, Kakkodi, Puthuppadi, Chathamangalam, Peruvayal, Kuttiyadi, Thikkodi, Moodadi, Chemancheri, Chengottukavu, Ayanna, Perambra, Madavoor, Changaroth and Kunnummal will be the main venues of the camp.

Also, separate venues have been arranged in the limits of Thiruvambadi, Kottur, Panangad, Balussery, Thalakkulathur, Thamarassery, Koodaranji, Kodenchery, Kunnamangalam, Perumanna, Mavoor, Nadapuram, Azhiyoor, Keezhariyoor, Velam, Arikkulam, Nochad, Ayanchery, Narikkuni, Kayakkodi and Meppayur grama panchayats.

According to Akshaya officials, not less than 1 lakh children are expected to complete the enrolment procedures within May 31. There will be separate camps for children within the limits of various municipalities and the City Corporation, they add.

10022 - Special Aadhaar camps for children under six - The Hindu

KOZHIKODE, May 22, 2016

Special Aadhaar camps for children under six

At least one lakh children in district to be enrolled

Akshaya - a subsidiary of the Kerala State Information Technology Mission - will soon conduct a number of special camps in the corporation areas, municipalities and grama panchayats with a mission to complete the Aadhaar enrolment of all children below the age of six.

As per the official figures available with the coordinators of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), there are at least one lakh children in Kozhikode district who are yet to complete the Aadhaar enrolment procedures. The plan of the Akshaya is to ensure cent per cent enrolment of the target group within May 31.

Akshaya coordinators point out that the Aadhaar number is now a mandatory requirement for all children to benefit from various government welfare schemes. It is needed even for admission in most of the schools, they add.

Parents will be able to complete the formalities by producing their Aadhaar cards and birth certificates of children.

Regional Akshaya centres will be coordinating the camps as per the schedule provided by the IT Mission.

Though arrangements are in place to complete the special enrolment drive within May 31, the details of the venues in the limits of various local bodies are yet to be announced by the Akshaya. Officials confirm that the list will be announced shortly after holding final discussions with the participating Akshaya entrepreneurs in the mission.

Special enrolment camps, focussing various groups, had earlier been held in the district. The special drive conducted in previous years had even benefited around 113 bed-ridden citizens in Kozhikode district. Similarly, special camps had been arranged for government employees, college students and working class in various parts of the district.

Enrolment drive

Camps planned in

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municipalities, panchayats

Akshaya entrepreneurs to lead the camps

Birth certificates of

children and Aadhaar

numbers of parents needed for enrolment

9718 - No child’s play, 75% of toddlers in the country don’t have Aadhaar number - Economic Times

No child’s play, 75% of toddlers in the country don’t have Aadhaar number

By Aman Sharma, ET Bureau | 1 Apr, 2016, 01.46AM IST

Almost 75% of toddlers in the country, who are less than 5 years of age, don’t have an Aadhaar number, pegging back the Centre’s ambitious target of 100% Aadhaar coverage by mid-2016.

NEW DELHI: The Modi Government is facing a challenge that is literally not a child's play. It is to enroll 8 crore toddlers, the big chunk out of the 28 crore people in India awaiting an Aadhaar. 

Almost 75% of toddlers in the country, who are less than 5 years of age, don't have an Aadhaar number, pegging back the Centre's ambitious target of 100% Aadhaar coverage by mid-2016. While the UIDAI says it has launched a big campaign to accelerate enrolment of 6.2 crore toddlers falling in its ambit in 18 states allotted to UIDAI, a piquant situation has emerged in the 11 states where Registrar General of India (RGI) is allotted the job to do enrolments. 

RGI has no mandate to enrol nearly 2 crore toddlers below 5 years of age in the states allotted to it. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on a push by the Committee of Secretaries (CoS), is now bringing a Cabinet note seeking an expanded mandate for enrolling these toddlers. 

"The note will be ready in 10 days...PMO is monitoring," a top MHA official told ET. Both UIDAI and RGI will however still miss the target set by CoS to enrol all toddlers by June 30, 2016. 

RGI will now have to either set up camps for parents to bring the toddlers or go house-to-house - just to take their photograph, which RGI had not done while noting demographics of all such children during house-to-house visits earlier. 

RGI will use same enrolment technique as UIDAI of a tabletbased client to photograph toddlers and linking this to his parents Aadhaar number. A good-quality photograph is a challenge as toddlers invariably cry or don't opening their eyes for a click. No biometrics like fingerprints or iris will be captured for toddlers. 

Only 2.2 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued so far in the 0-5 age group out of the nearly 11 crore toddlers in India. UIDAI has to enrol 2.1 crore toddlers in UP and 1.2 crore children in Bihar.

8655 - Cover all kids below 5 under Aadhaar, DMs told - TNN

Cover all kids below 5 under Aadhaar, DMs told

Ishita Bhatia,TNN | Sep 3, 2015, 10.53 PM IST

MEERUT: Taking a strong note of only 2.5% children -- in the age group of 0-5 years -- being covered under the Aadhaar card scheme from the entire state, the government has instructed the district magistrates of all 75 districts to ensure that all kids are included in the project. 

As per the 2011 census, there are more than 3 crore children in the state of which only 2.5% are registered under the Aadhaar scheme. 

"Considering that only 2.5% children in the age group of 0-5 years have received Aadhaar cards in the state, district magistrates have to ensure that all kids are enrolled in the scheme as early as possible," read the government order issued by Raj Pratap Singh, principal secretary, UP. 

Further, with non-availability of address proofs proving to be a major hindrance in issuance of Aadhaar cards, the government has instructed anganwadi centres, village pradhans and accountants to issue address proofs to such children. 

"In a majority of districts, anganwadi centres are allowed to issue address proofs to children. Even the village pradhans can issue address proofs as identified by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). This will ensure that kids are covered under the scheme on a priority basis," the order further reads. 

8552 - ‘Ensure 100% Aadhaar registration of children’ - NYOOZ

‘Ensure 100% Aadhaar registration of children’

• NYOOOZ Raipur Tue,18 Aug 2015

Summary: In a meeting held here, Singh said that a target of Aadhaar registration of 1.75 lakh children had been set from 1825 Anganwadi centres of the district.

Raipur District Collector Thakur Ram Singh has directed officials to ensure Aadhaar registration of all children between the age of 0 to 5 years in the Anganwadi centres of the district. In a meeting held here, Singh said that a target of Aadhaar registration of 1.75 lakh children had been set from 1825 Anganwadi centres of the district.              

8514 - Centre pushes for infants to be covered under Aadhar, Karnataka sets the ball rolling - Economic Times

Centre pushes for infants to be covered under Aadhar, Karnataka sets the ball rolling

By Sowmya Aji, ET Bureau | 13 Aug, 2015, 02.56PM IST

There are an estimated 15 crore infants in India in the age group of 0-5, whose inclusion is essential to meet the target of 100 per cent coverage set by PM Modi. 

Bengaluru: Even as the Supreme Court mulls the legality of Aadhaar due to privacy issues, the Centre has directed all states to speed up registration of infants aged 0-5 for the project through a new, "document-free" application that can be loaded onto a tablet and used anywhere. 

There are an estimated 15 crore infants in India in the age group of 0-5, whose inclusion is essential to meet the target of 100 per cent coverage set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Aadhar has already missed the latest deadline of June 2015, but the new and simpler application is expected to speed up the project's coverage. 

Karnataka, ruled by the Congress that envisaged the Aadhar project, is taking up the tablet-driven mission in a big way by sending enrolment agencies to the anganwadis, which take care of children below 5 years under the centrally-funded Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). "We have about 40 lakh children in anganwadis. Our enrolment agencies, both private and state, will register the children at the anganwadis and do on-the- spot authentication. The biometrics are not taken for children this age, so the simplified enrolment procedure just needs a tablet for completion," Unique Identity Project Director H L Prabhakar, at Karnataka's Centre for e-Governance told ET. 

The anganwadi coverage programme in Karnataka, home state of former Unique Identification Authority of India chairperson Nandan Nilekani, is expected to roll out within a month. The women and child welfare department, which oversees anganwadis, is to purchase 2,000 tablets. Officials said about 82 percent of the state's population - 5 crore of 6.1 crore -- already hold Aadhar cards. But the last-mile connectivity for the remaining 18 percent is proving to be extremely hard. 

"We are trying to achieve 100 percent coverage in every possible way," Centre for e-Governance CEO Rathan U Kelkar said. The e-Governance department, which is the nodal organization for Aadhar in Karnataka, has even sent out teams to remote tribal areas in the state in backward districts like Chamarajanagar and to thandas or dwellings of tribal Lambanis in Hyderabad- Karnataka region, to ensure every citizen is registered. Teams have already completed registering every inmate in the state's prisons and in care institutions. 

About half of the remaining 18 per cent that needs to be covered will be the children in the age group of 0-5. The Aadhar number of either parent will be used as authentication for the children and if the parent does not have one, they will also be immediately identified and registered under the programme, the officials said. 

The state has roped in cine actor Sudeep as brand ambassador for Aadhar, held drawing competitions at state level and, trained about 142 teachers from polytechnics, who have volunteered to go to schools -- both government and private -- to hold classes on why Aadhar is important. Teams with registration kits are being sent to schools, orphanages, corrective homes and hostels where the headmaster or warden can give the required documentation to register children aged above 5 years. 

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7921 - Kids below 5 to get Aadhaar number - TNN

Kids below 5 to get Aadhaar number

TNN | May 7, 2015, 12.55 PM IST

RANCHI: Children below five years of age will be linked with the Aadhaar system at anganwadi centres using integrated tablets. 

The project will be launched at Namkom block in Ranchi on a pilot basis next week. Officials of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) regional office will visit these centres to enroll children into Aadhaar. The regional UIDAI office has procured eight tablets to be used in the project. 

A UIDAI official said, "About 38 lakh children below five years have not been enrolled in the Aadhaar system. Enrolling these children is a problem because parents do not want to stand in a queue carrying them and they prefer to wait until the child becomes old." 

As part of the project, even children who are a day-old can be enrolled. Details required in the enrollment form include name of the child, gender, date of birth and UID number of one of the parents. If the child has not been named yet, the column will be filled with 'child of XYZ'. The address details would be taken from the UID number of the parent because the child would not have an address proof. 

The UIDAI official said, "The tablet has an inbuilt camera to take a photograph and a sensor to take fingerprints of the parents and locate their UID number. No biometric verification of the child will be needed." As per the rules, the UID card has to be updated twice in a lifetime - once at the age of five and then at 15 - to get biometric details. 

Social welfare department secretary Mridula Sinha recently held a meeting with UIDAI officials to discuss the project. Sinha said, "I will issue a letter asking the sahiyyas to lend support in making the project successful. They will have to inform the locals about the project so that the final enrolment process becomes easier and faster." 

If the pilot project is successful, the officials will visit all the 3,315 anganwadi centres in the state to enroll children from nearby areas. 

7746 - New software to issue Aadhaar cards to children - Deccan Herald

New software to issue Aadhaar cards to children

Mysuru, April 08, 2015, DHNS

Kids in the age group of zero to five years targeted; anganwadis to play key role

Children in the age group of zero to five years will be brought under Aadhaar with the help of a special software developed for the purpose. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will launch the process on May 15.

Disclosing this to the media here on Wednesday, UIDAI Deputy Director General Ashok Dalwai said the authority would begin the exercise on a trial basis across the country on May 1, before taking it up in earnest on May 15.

With the new software, he said, only photographs of children would be captured (as against fingerprints, iris image and photographs in the case of others). So far, children between zero and five years were being issued the cards on the basis of their parents’ Aadhaar cards.

“According to an analysis, it was found that of the total 6.11 crore population in the State, 4.71 crore (78 per cent) had availed themselves of Aadhaar cards. Among them, 50 per cent of the left-out group was children in the age group of zero to five years and sub-adults in the age group of six to 18 years. That apart, a drive was conducted at childcare institutes and other places where children are housed, to assess the data of children actually having the card. To bridge the gap, it was decided to develop a special software for them,” Dalwai said.

To achieve the target, both the Women and Child Development and Education departments will be tasked with the job of mobilising children to avail the cards. Anganwadi workers and assistants will have to play a key role in this regard, he said.
Though Dalwai didn’t specify the actual role of anganwadi workers, he said, “Mobile phones with Android software could be used to capture the photos of the children in anganwadis and uploaded to the UIDAI website for further processing.”

He said this would also help track the number of children going to anganwadi centres.

1.7 million cards

Saying that there has been an improvement in the frequency in generating Aadhaar cards per day ever since it was launched in 2010, Dalwai said 1.2 million Aadhaar cards were generated every day presently.

Mysuru tops

Mysuru tops at 98 per cent for issuing most number of Aadhaar cards, while Kalabuargi, Raichur, Koppal, Yadgir, Chitradurga and other districts are rated below 75 per cent, considered as poor. It could be attributed to the migrating population, where people fail to enrol themselves for the cards, he said.

Karnataka too tops in the country, being ranked among the top six for the successful distribution of Aadhaar cards.

7743 - Aadhaar enrolment for under-5 kids to become easier - TNN

Aadhaar enrolment for under-5 kids to become easier

Lawrence Milton, TNN | Apr 9, 2015, 04.00AM IST

MYSURU: A new system that will ease the process of Aadhaar enrolment for children under five is on the anvil. The system will be rolled out in mid-May, said Ashok Dalwai, deputy director general (Karnataka), Unique Identification Authority of India, in Mysuru on Wednesday. 

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the launch of permanent Aadhaar enrolment centres across Karnataka, Dalwai said, "We don't record iris or fingerprint of children aged below five, as these two unique characters of identity are in formative stages and will change later. Hence, we only take photographs of children for enrolment and issue them Aadhaar cards." But under the present process there were many columns to be filled for children. 

The new process will eliminate many of the columns and be much simpler, he said. Aadhaar for children will help government in monitoring children through anganwadi activities besides generating unique identity for them, said Dalwai. He added that parents have to give biometric details in later stages to complete the entire process as Aadhaar is purely based on these. Officials from the departments of women and child welfare as well as education will be roped in to enrol kids as percentage of enrolment of children below 15 years is only around 50% in Karnataka, Dalwai said. 

Ashok Dalwai claimed Karnataka is among top six states in Aadhaar enrolment in India. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra are ahead of Karnataka on this count. Over the past five years, Karnataka has covered 4.78 crore people, which is nearly 78% of the state's population and the process has continued. With the launch of permanent Aadhaar centres across the state, the enrolment will only increase, he claimed. 

98% of Mysuru covered Among districts, authorities in Mysuru —a pilot to launch this unique scheme — have covered over 98% of the population. It is the highest by any district in Karnataka. On an average the enrolment in other districts is 80% whereas it is low in Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal and Chitradurga, where enrolment has been below 70%, Dalwai disclosed.