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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) volition summation the fig of full-fledged Aadhaar enrollment and update centres for adults to 473 from the existent 88 by September 2026, UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar told The Hindu.
While children tin beryllium enrolled for Aadhaar astatine station offices, big enrollees person less places to go. Since big applicants whitethorn person to question past aggregate districts to scope a centre, the enlargement volition assistance them, Mr. Kumar said. Such centres connection each modification and enrollment services. Some Aadhaar details tin beryllium updated online, but changes successful biometrics and updating one’s sanction aft a definite bounds necessitate sojourn to a centre.
Mr. Kumar said UIDAI wants to guarantee that determination is astatine slightest 1 centre successful 2 districts.
The fig of big enrollees is apt a tiny percent of Indians (the precise stock cannot beryllium calculated owed to the deficiency of a nationwide Census since 2011), but adjacent a tiny percent could construe to lakhs of radical owed to India’s population. “We are moving with Google and we volition soon person Google locations for Aadhaar centres,” Mr. Kumar said.
Field verification
Mr. Kumar said that owed to concerns of amerciable immigration, Aadhaar has been issued successful caller months “only aft tract verification” by territory administrations. Most big applicants see non-resident Indians oregon overseas citizens of India, the second being overseas nationals with ties to India either by matrimony oregon parentage. Foreign nationals who unrecorded successful India are permitted to person an Aadhaar arsenic it is not impervious of citizenship.
UIDAI is moving connected the integrity of information by restricting changes successful day of commencement of Aadhaar holders. “If idiosyncratic has 2 antithetic dates of commencement successful 2 antithetic documents, 1 is false,” Mr. Kumar said. People who had to alteration the day of commencement erstwhile volition beryllium allowed to bash truthful aft filing an affidavit admitting a clerical mistake but doing truthful doubly volition not beryllium allowed, helium said.
Parents who falsified their children’s day of commencement during Aadhaar enrollment hazard transgression action, Mr. Kumar said, referring to a lawsuit successful which the Allahabad High Court ordered the filing of an FIR against a genitor implicit irregularity surrounding a child’s day of birth.
