UIDAI would issue to all residents of the State : Prem Kumar Dhumal

Published on January 23, 2011 by INVC   ·   1 Comment  Print This Post

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An official spokesman of the State Government said that enrolments of people of the State under Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), popularly known as ‘Aadhaar’ would be launched by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister on 25th January, 2011 from Hamirpur. He said that ‘Aadhaar’ was a 12-digit unique identification number which the UIDAI would issue to all residents of the State. He said that the number can provide numerous benefits ranging from opening a bank account to having a mobile connection, disbursing pensions etc. and would also help to check leakages in the system.

He said that Aadhaar would be an online, cost effective way, unique enough to eliminate the large number of duplicate and fake identities in Government and private databases and it would be a random number generated, devoid of any classification based on caste, creed, religion and geography.

The spokesman said that the State of Himachal Pradesh had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Unique Identification Authority of India. He said that Principal Secretary, Planning was the State Nodal officer for the project and the Director, Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Himachal Pradesh had been appointed as the Registrar who would responsible for implementation of the project. The project was being monitored by the UID Implementation Committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, he said.

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