3.16 crore get Aadhaar numbers in Bihar

PATNA: With Aadhaar enrolment moving at a fast pace, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday crossed a significant milestone of generating 3.16 crore Aadhaar numbers in Bihar.
“Currently, around 6,000 enrolment stations are working in different districts in Bihar, with more than 3 lakh enrolments per day. In Patna and Kishanganj districts, the Aadhaar enrolment coverage is more than 70% of their respective population,” a UIDAI official told TOI.
He said enrolment coverage in seven districts – Arwal, Muzaffarpur, Sheikhpura, Gopalganj, Saharsa, Sheohar and Katihar – has crossed 50% of their respective population. The enrolment for Aadhaar is going on at more than 1,800 centres across Bihar.
The UIDAI’s Ranchi regional office, which looks after the organization’s operations in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, last year initiated fresh interaction with Bihar government, its various registrars and enrolment agencies to speed up enrolment exercise in different districts, especially Patna urban area. Two mega training camps were organized in Patna and thereafter several districtwise camps were organized for training the workers of enrolment agencies, testing and certification of operators. More than 1,500 operators were certified at these camps, the officer said.
He said Ranchi regional office has planned regular training camps to induct more operators. Recently, on the request of state registrar (Bihar’s rural development department), a special two-day camp for training of trainers was organized in Patna, where more than 40 trainers were trained. These trainers will train the operators at district level and it is expected that the state registrar will also induct more operators in UIDAI ecosystem. He said the UIDAI was going to open an Aadhaar facilitation centre at its camp office in Patna, with facilities of Aadhaar enrolment, Aadhaar correction/updates, e-aadhaar printing and dedicated lease line for uploading the residents enrolment data packets.