The Himachal Government has set the target to complete the Aadhaar enrolment in the State as January, 2016. The State has covered more than 67 lakh residents under the Aadhaar enrolment which is about 98 per cent of the total population.
A spokesman of the State Government on Thursday said that Aadhaar enrolment in the State was started in January 2011. Unique Authority of India had set the targets as per the population of census of 2011. The population of the State as per 2011 census was about 68.5 lakh.
To find out the gaps in enrollment, the projected population for 2015 was analysed and compared to the current Aadhaar enrollments on the basis of age. This analysis revealed that the population above 18 years had already been covered and Aadhaar numbers had been generated.
The spokesman said the primary gap had now been identified in the population under five years of age. To cover this gap and complete the Aadhaar enrollment in the state, Department of Information Technology had devised the strategies.
To cover under five years age group, the strategy had been made to cover this group through the Anganwadis. 450 kits had been procured which would be provided to Anganwadi workers who were being trained as Aadhaar enrolment operators. One Anganwadi worker in each 3243 panchayats would be trained and training of more than 800 Anganwadi workers had been completed and the remaining would be completed during this month. About 200 Kits were already functional in Shimla and Solan districts and enrolments would be completed by January, 2016.
The 5-18 years age group would be covered through schools and colleges. 114 permanent enrolment centres functional at block/district level and other places were being operated through CSC and the Department. As many as 100 additional permanent enrolment centres were being deployed and these 214 enrolment centres were being routed in the different schools and colleges within the respective block where they were available. Besides, 24 mobile vans would also be deployed in the districts where the coverage was comparatively low.