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Aadhar service centres in Post Offices soon
Posted on: 28/Aug/2017 10:07:04 AM
The task of gathering Aadhar data and correcting them is entrusted back with the Postal Department. Separate counters/centres are being set up for this purpose in the various Post Offices in Tamil Nadu.
Any individual who has stayed in India for 182 days is eligible to get Aadhar cards. Initially, Aadhar cards were issued from the Post Offices. Later, this task was handed over to the private agencies. So far, 100 Crores individuals have obtained Aadhar cards. Around 3 lakh individuals make corrections in the Aadhar card details every day.
As the Aadhar compilation is in the hands of the private agencies, there have been complaints confidential Aadhar Data is being pilfered. Further, a case was registered in the High Court that Aadhar cards must not be mandatory for government services. In this situation, the central government has now decided to entrust the task of Aadhar-related activities back to the Post Offices.
In this regard, R Anand, postmaster-general, Chennai City Region, explained that the task of setting up Adhar service centres again in Post offices has commenced. There will be 2 sections related to Aadhar services – Registration for new Aadhar cards and correction of the existing Aadhar cards, There are 568 Head and Branch Post Offices in the Chennai region.
Out of this, the task of corrections in Aadhar cards has been taken up in 10 Post Offices in the Chennai Metro City from the month of July. So far, 5000 Aadhar cards have been corrected. Aadhar card service centres will be set up all Post Offices shortly.
Meanwhile, there has been a huge popular response to the permanent postal stamp exhibition recently inaugurated in Chennai. Training courses are being conducted for the students on philately (the hobby of stamp collection). Further, under the ‘Green Plan’, the activity of planting saplings has been intensified.
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