“In addition to the traditional method of print and deliver, it has been decided to communicate Aadhaar numbers electronically,” Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
As of November 29, 7.95 crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated by the Unique identification Authority of India. For printing and delivering Aadhaar numbers, UIDAI has an agreement with the Department of Posts. “However, the pace of printing could not keep up with the increasing enrolments and the Department of Posts was requested to ramp up its printing capacity which was done but still it was not able to match the increasing generation of Aadhaar numbers,” he said.
Published 13 December 2011, 18:27 IST