After a period of uncertainty, enrolment in the world's largest biometric database is set to speed up as Aadhaar officials race to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's June 2015 deadline. Currently, the Unique Identification Authority of India is carrying out close to 7 lakh enrolments a day. This will be ramped up to 15 lakh daily to meet the 100 crore target by next year, deputy director general Ashok Dalwai said.
UIDAI, tasked with issuing an identification number to the country's residents, will also start migrating data to its own servers. “Our captive data centres are ready,“ Dalwai said.
Private enrollment agencies will be encouraged to set up centres in areas that haven't been covered so far. Apart from that, the government will also set up permanent centres in areas that have been covered, he said.
The authority, which has already enrolled more than 60 crore residents, will also start operations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, which were previous ly to be covered by the Registrar General of India for the National Population Register. During the previous government's tenure, it was decided that UIDAI will enrol half the population and the rest would be registered by the Registrar General.
However, the new government has decided that only states in the northeast, Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Orissa will be enrolled by the Registrar General. While the government has decided to go slow on direct benefit transfers using Aadhaar, it will continue seeding various databases with the unique IDs.The government's decision to slow down linking Aadhaar with benefit schemes comes after a Supreme Court order in March said that services cannot be denied to citizens who do not have the numbers.
The Unique Identification Authority is also providing Rs.10 crore to state governments that are seeding their databases with Aadhaar numbers. States have started creating resident data hubs based on Aadhaar numbers.
UIDAI, tasked with issuing an identification number to the country's residents, will also start migrating data to its own servers. “Our captive data centres are ready,“ Dalwai said.
Private enrollment agencies will be encouraged to set up centres in areas that haven't been covered so far. Apart from that, the government will also set up permanent centres in areas that have been covered, he said.
The authority, which has already enrolled more than 60 crore residents, will also start operations in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, which were previous ly to be covered by the Registrar General of India for the National Population Register. During the previous government's tenure, it was decided that UIDAI will enrol half the population and the rest would be registered by the Registrar General.
However, the new government has decided that only states in the northeast, Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Orissa will be enrolled by the Registrar General. While the government has decided to go slow on direct benefit transfers using Aadhaar, it will continue seeding various databases with the unique IDs.The government's decision to slow down linking Aadhaar with benefit schemes comes after a Supreme Court order in March said that services cannot be denied to citizens who do not have the numbers.
The Unique Identification Authority is also providing Rs.10 crore to state governments that are seeding their databases with Aadhaar numbers. States have started creating resident data hubs based on Aadhaar numbers.
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