Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday positively responded to the proposal of completing the remaining Aadhaar card enrolment works by the State Registrar and Civil Supplies Department.
Reviewing the Aadhaar card enrolment works with the Chief Secretary and other top officials at Secretariat, Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the time frame for completion of enrolments in the areas allotted to the State registrar and status on use of the Aadhaar number in the delivery mechanism were entrusted to IT&C Department and State Resident Data Hub.
Chief Secretary Minnie Mathew, Principal Secretary (Planning), S P Tucker, Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Raymond Peter, Principal Secretary (Finance), V Bhasker, Principal Secretary to CM, Binoy Kumar, Additional Secretary to CM, N Sreedhar, Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Raymond Peter, Commissioner, Civil Supplies, Harpreet Singh, Secretary, IT&C, Sanjay Jaju, Officials representing the UIDAI attended the meeting.
As far as status of Aadhaar enrolment is concerned, the total population of Andhra Pradesh is 8,46,65,533 and the total enrolment is 5,20,09,331 (61%), Aadhaar generated is 4,49,89,401 (86% of the enrolment), letters delivered is 3,65,69,376.
As far as decision on allotment of non-municipal uncovered areas of 16 districts is concerned, UIDAI has permitted the non-State Registrars to enroll in their premises within the radius of 500 meters. UIDAI has also informed that if any non-State Registrar desires to undertake enrolments outside their premises, State level UID Implementation Committee has to approve for taking up enrolments and Restrictions on data sharing by non State registrars.
The Government of India informed that 5 districts Hyderabad, Chittoor, East Godavari, Anantapur and Ranga Reddy are identified for initiating as pilots related to certain Government schemes based on Aadhaar, having completed enrolment of 5.20 crore, accounting for 26% of country wide enrolment.
Tenders have been called for the Aadhaar enrolment in the municipal areas of 15 districts allotted to State Registrar (except Vizianagaram district where the Census Department have completed enrolment under NPR). Tenders will be finalized in the first week of July and enrolment in these districts will be completed at the earliest, the sources said.
–Agencies