UIDAI crack whip on enrolment agencies

New Delhi, July 05: Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI has been warned the enrolment agencies here on Tuesday. Coming to details, they warned that agencies for refusing enrollment to residents citing technical glitch or on any other pretext, and termed such refusal as "corrupt practice".

In India we are having about 25,000 active enrollment centers, apparently, all the enrolment agencies will have to shift to government or municipal premises from external sites in coming weeks, bringing them under the direct supervision of the authorities.

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey has been said to the media that "We are getting a lot of complaints that Aadhaar enrolment centers listed on our site are refusing to do enrollment on one pretext or another. This amounts to corrupt practice."

He further added that "It is the operator who lists the services on our website. When they register, it is assumed that their machine is working and they are in a position to enroll people."