Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra inaugurated a workshop on simplifying the use of Aadhaar held jointly by the Odisha Government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) here on Friday.
Mahapatra said simplifying the use of Aadhaar accelerates ease of living while ensuring effective and accurate delivery of various public services.
He advised the different departments to have detail interaction with the UIDAI officers in the workshop and get all their doubts clarified for enhancing the use of Aadhaar numbers.
He also advised the UIDAI to keep on updating of the Aadhaar data and biometric impressions periodically, more particularly the biometric of babies and children, so that the data in Aadhaar portal does not get obsolete in course of time.
Mahapatra emphasised on enrolment of the new born babies, old and infirm people who were not able to come over to Aadhaar enrolment centres.
He asked the UIDAI to integrate Aadhaar-related services with Mo Seva Kendras (MSKs) so that people in remote pockets get the chance for new enrolment and registration of required changes in Aadhaar data.
UIDAI Chief Executive Officer Saurav Garg said, “Odisha is a lead and robust user State of Aadhaar data. Aadhaar registration in the age group of 18 and above is reaching cent percent.”