rashid jorvee blog: Issues with Aadhaar enrollment centers

Issues with Aadhaar enrollment centers

We are the people from a small town named xyz, in state of Jharkhand. we are struggling to enroll for new Aadhaar and update the information in existing Aadhaar because there is no Aadhaar enrollment center in our town. The population of our town in approx eight thousand. Our town have post office and a banks as well; where hundred of people daily interacting and using their services.

As we all aware that without Aadhaar a person seems he doesn't living in India; and if we are holding Aadhaar then we have to link everything means everything with our Aadhaar number. In case If we dont have Aadhaar;

We cant to able to open a bank account.
We can't enroll for PAN,
We can't buy a SIM card. and many more

We could analyse and think the difficult life of a common man without Aadhaar. Or a civilian's life become more difficult when there is no Aadhaar enrollment center in his/her village or town. In our town we don't have any Aadhaar enrollment center and nearest enrollment centers are too far; a person had to travel 20-30 kilometers to update their Aadhaar card and have to waste one or half of the his/her day; specially for those people who are working on daily wage.

Hence I reuqest UIDAI to open a Aadhaar enrollment center either based on population or division. At least we should have a Aadhaar enrolment center on 10,000 people.

Also I would like to bring to your kind notice that some Aadhaar enrollment centers are charging willfulness amount to enroll for new Aadhaar or make any update in existing Aadhaar card; I heard from some people that they used to charge 150-250 rupees, which is completely unacceptable. But the maximum charge which UIDAI proposed is far less than the amount collected by the center. Visit https://www.uidai.gov.in/images/akr_policy_on_pricing_30082016.pdf to see the maximum fee to be collected from the residents for the services(enrollment, update and other services) provided by Registrar/EAs/Other Service Providers, w.e.f. January 01, 2017.

I think this is not only the story of our town, but this is the issue of every small town and village of India.

I wrote this article and need your help and support to bring this issue in attention of UIDAI, and let UIDAI know how civilians are struggling with the service of UIDAI. I hope and expecting UIDAI will take necessary action and make their service easy and accessible for every citizen and take the restrict action against those centers who are charging more than proposed fees.