Incentive Scheme for delivery of letters carrying Aadhar Number of the residents

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OM dated 30th May, 2012 please Click here. 

Govt. gives nod to project merging Aadhar, PAN Databases

In order to weed out the problem of fake PAN cards and to ensure an accurate biometric data, the government has initiated a mammoth project to bring together both the Aadhar and the PAN databases.

The Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) issues the Aadhar number which is now being synchronised with the Permanent Account Number database maintained by the I-T Department.

The Finance Ministry, which had first mooted the proposal of generating and issuing biometric PAN in 2006, had kept the decision pending for sometime as it was felt that both the agencies (UIDAI and I-T) would be “duplicating the effort” to reach a common goal — biometrics-based identity.

“It has been decided to integrate both the Aadhar and the PAN database which will help the agencies to maintain a correct database for ensuring two things.

While the Aadhar will ensure effective disbursal of government schemes to citizens, the biometric PAN card database will help stop the forgery of PAN cards which begets economic crimes,” a senior Finance Ministry official said.

The Finance Ministry, under the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in 2006, had proposed that the biometric PAN cards would have the I-T assesses’ fingerprints (two from each hand) and the face.

This will now be achieved by collating the Aadhar database with that of the PAN.

3.86 crore Aadhaar cards in process of being delivered: Government

The government today said as many as 3.86 crore Aadhaar letters are in the process of being dispatched while 6.46 lakh cards could not be delivered by the postal department due to various reasons such as incomplete address. 
As on April 20, 2012 a total of 17 crore Aadhaar numbers had been generated and 10.44 crore have been dispatched, Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

"Out of these (10.44 crore letters), 6.58 crore Aadhaar letters have been delivered as reported by India Post and the remaining 3.86 crore letters are in transit," Kumar, who is also Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Science said.

He further said that as per the portal of the Department of Posts, the total returned letters as on April 20, 2012, stood at 6.46 lakh. This is 0.98 per cent of total Aadhaar letters delivered.

"There are five reasons for returned letters -- refused, deceased, insufficient address, addressee cannot be located and unclaimed," he said adding there was no bogus Aadhaar registrations.

"The letter being returned are having clear remarks of the concerned postman of the area and they are one of the five mentioned reasons...," he said.

Mandate of UIDAI is to issue Aadhaar numbers to all residents of India.

UID (AAdhar) Delivery Instruction

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Reasons	Explanation	Action	Uploaded info speednet
Addressee not available at time of delivery	Door locked/addressee not available at the time of delivery for addressee specific articles	Intimation server	Intimation served
Addressee moved	Address has moved from the address and has left instructions as to redirection of his communication	Article NOT TO BE REDIRECTED BUT RETURNED TO THE “RETURN” ADDRESS AS MENTIONED ON THE uid LETTER COVER ON THE SAME DAY	Return to the sender
Item refused by address	Addressee refused to accept the article	RETURNED TO THE “RETURN” ADDRESS AS MENTIONED ON THE uid LETTER COVER ON THE SAME DAY	Return to the sender
Deceased	In case of addressee specific article, if the addressee has deceased		Return to the sender
Insufficient address	The address given on the article is incorrect, however the addressee can still be located and delivery can be made within the same office	Article NOT TO BE REDIRECTED BUT RETURNED TO THE “RETURN” ADDRESS AS MENTIONED ON THE uid LETTER COVER ON THE SAME DAY	Return to the sender
Insufficient address	Address given on the article is not complete-like name of street, house number, locality etc are not given	Article NOT TO BE REDIRECTED BUT RETURNED TO THE “RETURN” ADDRESS AS MENTIONED ON THE uid LETTER COVER ON THE SAME DAY	Return to the sender
Addressee cannot be located	There is no person of that name at the address or addressee ha gone away without leaving any instruction as to the disposal ofcorrespondence and no reliable information is available about his/her new address		Return to the sender
UNCLAIMED	Intimation was served but the article was not taken delivery of by the addressee or his/her representative till the date of retention of the article in the office	Return of the “return” address as mentioned on the UID letters cover after the completion of period of retention (i.e 7 days following the day of receipt) at the post office	Return to the sender
Missent	The Address is correct  bu it fails in delivery area of another office	Article to be redirected to the address as mentioned on the UID letter on the same day	Return to the sender

COPY OF LETTER NO – BD & MD dated 06.06.2011

  

UID Time limit 

Delivery in Departmental offices :14 days

Delivery in Branch offices:17 days