Monday, Jun 17, 2013, 6:24 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Housing societies can send an SMS for enrolment camps. Forget the hassle of spending hours in serpentine queues to get yourself
registered for an Aadhaar card. You can get it done at your doorstep.
All your housing society or employer needs to do is send an SMS or
register on the state’s Aadhaar website. The SMS service will be
operational in a week or so.
Once the service starts, societies can seek Aadhaar enrolment and registration camps in their premises. At present, office bearers need to register on the official site http://aadhaar.maharashtra.gov.in in case they wish to have camps set up in their societies. Following the resumption of this service, around 300 societies are already on the waiting list.
The idea of setting up centres in housing societies and other private institutions is to ensure that citizens do not have to wait in queues at enrolment centres. Also, there has been a decline in the number of people visiting public centres set up by agencies to get themselves registered.
“The facility is available in Mumbai as of now though we also plan to start it in cities like Pune where there is 60 per cent enrolment,” an official told dna.
In Mumbai, there have been one crore Aadhaar enrolments and 90 lakh UID cards have been generated so far. However, the enrolments are in the range of 20 per machine every day when ideally, they should be around 50 a machine for eight hours.
“We are forwarding requests from housing societies to agencies which will then set up centres as per priority,” said Rajesh Agarwal IT secretary of Maharashtra government.
Once the service starts, societies can seek Aadhaar enrolment and registration camps in their premises. At present, office bearers need to register on the official site http://aadhaar.maharashtra.gov.in in case they wish to have camps set up in their societies. Following the resumption of this service, around 300 societies are already on the waiting list.
The idea of setting up centres in housing societies and other private institutions is to ensure that citizens do not have to wait in queues at enrolment centres. Also, there has been a decline in the number of people visiting public centres set up by agencies to get themselves registered.
“The facility is available in Mumbai as of now though we also plan to start it in cities like Pune where there is 60 per cent enrolment,” an official told dna.
In Mumbai, there have been one crore Aadhaar enrolments and 90 lakh UID cards have been generated so far. However, the enrolments are in the range of 20 per machine every day when ideally, they should be around 50 a machine for eight hours.
“We are forwarding requests from housing societies to agencies which will then set up centres as per priority,” said Rajesh Agarwal IT secretary of Maharashtra government.
Housing societies can even send their request by email to uid@maharashtra.gov.in.
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1849028/report-now-aadhaar-at-your-doorstep
