Amid Jharkhand is a frontrunner in ‘Aadhaar’ enrolment, thousands of senior citizens struggling hard to get registered for Unique Identification Number (UID); want ‘biometric exception’ option.
UID centers were finding it difficult to record their biometrics information’s as age elopes the finger tip areas. While Iris scanner failed to get accurate images due to their eye ailments like cataract. As Aadhaar number is declared mandatory for accessing services like banking, lPG, mobile phone connections including other Government and Non-Government services aged people are in fray.
We are frightened to be deprived from our pension or grudging from the government sponsored welfare schemes, said Murli Dhar Singh (67) a retired CCl employee. “More than four times we (five) had queued-up for enrolment of Aadhaar but people working at UID centers failed to record our fingerprints as well as iris image. They were denied our registration and asked us to come later”, added Singh
like me, thousands of the senior people facing tough time for the enrollment of Aadhaar, said Singh. On average, senior peoples suffers from eye-related ailments like cataract, partial blindness including other retina disease. In cataract doctors used to change our eye lenses in a bid to restore our vision and in such cases iris scanner failed to record the biometric information, he said.
“Due to old age our finger prints vanishes, skins around the finger tips becomes wear and tear and again we have to suffer from registration as finger print scanner fails to record the information’s”, he added. Demanding ‘biometric exception’ options to the elderly people several senior citizens written a request letter to the Chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in this concern.
“As per the notification of UIDAI ragpickers and daily wage labourers are exempted from fingerprints for Aadhaar registration we elderly people also wants biometric exception, which is our need and compulsion”, Singh added.According to the experts Iris cameras, in general, take a digital photo of the iris pattern and recreating an encrypted digital template of that pattern. That encrypted template cannot be re-engineered or reproduced in any sort of visual image.
“The iris is the coloured ring around the pupil of every human being and like a snowflake, no two are alike. Each are unique in their own way, exhibiting a distinctive pattern that forms randomly in utero”, added the expert.