HYDERABAD:  The Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy today positively responded to the proposal of completing the remaining Aadhaar card enrolment works by the State Registrar, A.P. State Civil Supplies Department. The Chief Minister held a detailed review meeting with Chief Secretary and other top officials at Secretariat.

The Chief Minister reviewed the Progress of Aadhaar Enrolment, decision on allotment of uncovered areas to the State registrar or non State registrars, time frame for completion of enrolments in the areas allotted to the State registrar and status on use of the Aadhaar number in the delivery mechanism entrusted to IT&C Department and State Resident Data Hub.

Chief Secretary Minnie Mathew, Principal Secretary (Planning), S.P. Tucker, Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Raymond Peter, Principal Secretary (Finance), V Bhasker, Principal Secretary to CM, Binoy Kumar, Additional Secretary to CM, N Sreedhar, Principal Secretary, Social Welfare, Raymond Peter, Commissioner, Civil Supplies, Harpreet Singh, Secretary,  IT&C, Sanjay Jaju, Officials representing the UIDAI attended the meeting.

As far as status of Aadhar enrolment is concerned, as on 3-7-2012, the total population of Andhra Pradesh is 8,46,65,533 and the total enrolment is 5,20,09,331 (61%), Aadhaar generated is 4,49,89,401 (86% of the enrolment), letters delivered is 3,65,69,376. As far as agency-wise enrolment status is concerned, the State Registrar, the Civil Supplies Department has done 3.08 crs enrolment and non-registrars SBI has done 1.73 crs, India Post 3.65 lakh, Central Bank-2.32 lakh, NSDL-6.07 lakh, RGI-18.57lakh, UBI-4.03 lakh, Canara Bank-0.24 lakh, SBH-3.12 lakh, IOB-0.25 lakh, BOI-0.37 lakh and total enrolment by non-state registrars are 2.12 crs and total enrolment is 5.20 crs.  

As far as decision on allotment of non-municipal uncovered areas of 16 districts are concerned, UIDAI has permitted the non-State Registrars to enrol in their premises within the radius of 500 meters, UIDAI has also informed that if any non-State Registrar desires to undertake enrolments outside their premises, State level UID Implementation Committee has to approve for taking up enrolments and Restrictions on data sharing by non State registrars.

The Government of India informed that 5 districts Hyderabad, Chittoor, East Godavari, Anantapur and Ranga Reddy are identified for initiating as pilots related to certain Government schemes based on Aadhaar, having completed enrolment of 5.20 crore, accounting for 26% of country wide enrolment, the State is possibly the first state ready to roll out a service on Aadhaar basis across the country.