Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Friday directed to give wide publicity to 'Special Identification Number Project' (Aadhar) preparation programme in all villages through different publicity mediums, so that maximum number of people could get their Aadhar card prepared.
In the state-level Implementation Committee Meeting held here, the Chief Secretary asked to do biometric compilation work in a big way for the preparation of Aadhar card in all districts.
He asked all the district collectors to make programme for the preparation of Village Panchayat wise Aadhar cards and by declaring it in villages, inform the residents the day and date of the programme.
He told the collectors to ensure that one team will compile 50 biometric data on a day in one Panchayat and only after compiling 95 per cent data the team will move to other panchayats. For the biometric date compilation, Sarpanch and Secretary will be the identifiers and the Patwari will certify it.
He asked the officers of UIDAI Hyderabad to record proper address on the Aadhar card and to take special care while recording the postal address.
The Chief Secretary said to establish Common Service Centre at Janpad Panchayat, Nagar Panchayat, Municipality and Municipal Corporations for preparation of Aadhar card and change of address in Aadhar card through state agency–CHiPS.
Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department and Registrar of Special Identification Project Aadhar, Vikassheel said that earlier the biometric data compilation work had been done by Director of Census under the National Census Register. Now, as per the letter of UIDAI Chairman dated February 13, 2014, the work will be done with the participation of State government and other registrars.
Principal Secretary PWD and Urban Administration RP Mandal, Secretary, Water Resources and PHED, Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Secretary, School Education Department, Dinesh Shrivastava, Director of Census Renu G Pillai, State Chief Electoral Officer Nidhi Chhibbar, UIDAI Hyderabad officer, officers of Postal Department, banks and other departments were present in the meeting.