Goa is expected to be the first state in the country to be entirely covered by the Unique Identification Project, as per the Chief Minister of Goa Shri Digambar Kamat. He claims that 21 post offices in the State will function as enrolment stations under the scheme and these post offices are expected to cover each and every citizen of the State within the next four months.
Shri Kamat’s claim sounds good but the target of four months appears unrealistic. The process of covering each and every person in the State is difficult through only 21 centres. The process itself sounds cumbersome and needs a lot of effort in fulfilling the whole procedure.
Every citizen is required to fill a form for enrolling and submit it to the registrar along with the proof of address. Every enrolment station will have one postal clerical staff for verification of documents. After checking the enrolment form entries and address proof, the postal officer will impress a stamp stating “original seen and verified”.
Thereafter, the enrolment agency will record the finger print with the help of a finger print scanner and also the eyes with the help of the iris reader. The data is then sent to the ADHAR server and a unique number generated. A receipt is the given to the citizen.
The entire exercise reportedly will require 20 minutes per citizen and everyday each centre will service 50 citizens. The calculations are based on these figures. This is in an ideal situation where each and every citizen fills up a form correctly and gets copies of the right documents.
In this calculation, it is not taken into account if any citizen does not commit any mistake and has to return back without completing any work. In practice, at least fifty percent of the applicants are susceptible for mistakes in entry of forms or in getting the right forms. This is evident in every case where forms are to be filled.
Even educated people make mistakes while filling forms, what about illiterate people? Instead of projecting unrealistic time schedules, the Chief Minister must actually have made a statement of assuring the Central Government of steps the State will take to complete the task faster. Would he be able to spare more people, open more centres for the collection of the data?
People need help to fill the forms and appointing just one clerical staff for each centre is plain stupidity, if not anything else. Though four months target is not unrealistic, the way the State plans to go about the exercise sounds very unrealistic.
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