Aadhaar

Aadhaar Generation - Unique Identification Authority of India:

      Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) of government of India, an attached office under the Planning commission has been created in order to issue Unique Identification Number to all the citizens of the country which can be used for verfication and authentication of the persons in a cost effective manner in order to eliminate duplicate and fake identities.

      The UIDAI has recognised certain Registrars as authosied entities for the purpose of enrolling the residents for the UID numbers. Registras are typically the Heads of the Departments of State Governments, Public sector Undertakings and organisations who interact with residents.

                State Population                  :                  3.53 Crore

                Aadhaar Generated              :                  3.58 Crore

                No.of centres functioning     :                  615

      Telangana is the foremost State in the country to complete Aadhaar seeding of 100% of 2.81 crore beneficiaries data with Aadhaar numbers. The seeding of Aadhaar through e-PDS application is helping the Department to remove duplicates and cards in the name of non-existing/dead/migrated persons. The National Informatics Centre has provided the security measures to keep the information strictly confidential.

      Deduplication of units with Aadhaar in respect of all categories viz., within the State,other states, Aadhaar data of units with consent has been done and bogus units are eliminated due to non-existent,duplicate UIDs,death cases,migrated cases etc .