UID allotment put on fast track

The Delhi government started giving out the UIDs to the city’s 40 lakh homeless since October 2010. With more than 2,000 homeless already given their UID,officials said they will now start enrolling the rest of Delhi.

“We have decided to deploy 3,000 machines for this purpose. A machine is capable of completing enrollment exercise of 50 persons in a single day. In a day,we will be able to enroll about 1.5 lakh people. The numbers will be sent by speed post after 15 days of completion of enrollment process,” Dikshit said.

Under the project,a 12 digit unique number will be allotted to all citizens of India.

“We generate the number and send a communication to the individuals. We expect residents to memorise,write or store the number,” a senior UIDAI official said.

The enrollment agency will also have to collect demographic and biometric detail of each individual. “The biometric information of each individual will be matched with the details of the individuals already issued the unique number in our central database. If the details do not match,the unique number would be generated,” he added.