JOIN USTen crore people have been enrolled countrywide, with as many as four crore Aadhaar numbers having been generated.
Tumkur and Mysore are among the top districts in terms of enrolment across the country and Kerala has achieved the best quality of enrolment so far.
Officials say the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the State government had set a target of enrolling all Bangaloreans by the end of this year. They will have the Aadhaar numbers by the end of 2012.
Ashok Dalwai, Deputy Director of the UIDAI Regional Office, Bangalore, said UIDAI, in a bid to reduce processing time, had enhanced the capacity of the Central Identification Repository to process 10 lakh packets per day from the current five lakh. Also, the number of enrolment stations in Bangalore will go up soon.
The Regional Office, Bangalore, is the headquarters for Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Lakshadweep. He said a majority of the people who had enrolled had given their consent for sharing their information with the various proposed service providers, including banks and State governments.
Dalwai said the response received by UIDAI was too overwhelming and that there was an immediate need to enhance infrastructure, especially pertaining to the processing of enrolments. “I think we’ll meet the target of enrolling more than 60 per cent of the people in the country, much before the target in 2014.” He said the Aadhaar authentication services would be launched shortly.
The proof of concept studies conducted across the country, officials said, show that the technology centre was ready to host the authentication service by UIDAI. This will be the first online authentication system, after commissioning which, any person, regardless of the original place of residence can prove his/her identity anywhere in the country without the need to carry an identity card.