City residents may visit post offices to enrol themselves for the Aadhaar cards from July.
The postal department is in the process of identifying designated post
offices across the State to function as centres for Aadhaar enrolment
and updating.
The department has planned to implement the project at head post offices
in 12 places — Chennai, Puducherry, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Tiruchi,
Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Tiruppur, Dindigul, Vellore and Tirunelveli.
These select post offices would enable residents to enrol themselves for
Aadhaar cards and update details such as mobile numbers and address.
Officials of the postal department said while residents may be able to
enrol for Aadhaar cards only in select head post offices, they may
approach any branch post office with a computerised network for updating
details in the Aadhaar card.
Postmaster General in charge (Chennai city region) J.T.Venkateswarulu
said besides 12 head post offices, 2,515 sub post offices have been
identified to provide the facility across the State.
Reaching rural areas
This would be beneficial particularly for residents in rural pockets as post offices have a better reach.
Two staff members would be involved in providing the service in each
post office. “We have trained 100 postal personnel who will in turn
train other employees across the State. We are procuring equipment for
registering biometric identification of residents,” he said.
The project would be implemented at a cost of ₹80 lakh. In Chennai, Anna
Road head post office is likely to chosen as designated post office for
Aadhaar enrolment, officials said.
Source: The Hindu
