Aadhaar enrolment set to get a push over next 3 months

The process of Aadhaar number generation and the bio-metric data enrolment for the National Population Registry in the State is set for a push in the three months ahead, as officials hope to reach 70 per cent coverage by September. At present, the Aadhaar number generation for the state stood pegged at around 30 per cent of the targeted population number in the NPR, the demographic data bank created by the Census Department in 2010. To generate an Aadhaar number, operators certified by the Unique Identification Authority of India will have to match the demographic data in the NPR with the biometric scans taken at camps by contracted third-party vendors and upload the "packet" to government servers. In Tiruchi, Pudukottai and Ariyalur, which are expected to feature in the second phase of the rollout of the direct transfer of benefits scheme next month, the coverage is around 70 per cent.