UIDAI to enrol additional 40 crore residents

The Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India (CC-UIDA1) has allowed UIDAI to enrol additional 40 crore residents, beyond 20 crore already recommended by the EFC.

The financial proposal relating to Aadhaar enrolments of additional 40 crore will be separately placed before the EFC. Pending this approval, UIDAI is allowed to continue Aadhaar enrolment beyond 20 crore, so that the momentum of the field formations is not lost.

Provision will be made in the budget for 2012-13 in anticipation thereof.

The committee has also said that Aadhaar enrolments through non-RGI registrars will move at full speed within the ceiling of 60 crore (20 crore + 40 crore). A suggested list of states/UTs was also approved by the committee.

The NPR enrolment will continue as envisaged, but if in the course of enrolment, a person indicates he/she is already enrolled for Aadhaar, the biometric data will not be captured by NPR, instead the Aadhaar number/enrolment number will be recorded in NPR and the biometric data will be sourced from the UIDAI.

Detailed protocols will be worked out by Inter Ministerial co-ordination Committee (IMCC), already constituted by the ministry of home affairs so as to comfortably implement this simultaneous effort.

The additional cost for enrolment and logistics pertaining to printing and delivery of Aadhaar letters in respect of the 40 crore additional enrolments will be brought before the EFC for their recommendation and to the CC-UIDAI for approval.

The UID project is primarily aimed at ensuring inclusive growth by providing a form of identity to those who do not have any identity.

The modalities and detailed protocol for smooth implementation of simultaneous enrolment by the Non-RGI Registry of UIDAI and the RGI will be finalized by the IMCC within the overall directions given by the CC-UIDAI.