UIDAI issues notices to some agencies for violating norms

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued show-cause notices and suspended enrolment operation of some agencies which failed to prepare Aadhaar cards as per the prescribed rules.

"UIDAI has issued show-cause notices and temporarily suspended enrolment operation of some of these agencies for non-compliance of prescribed process/guidelines till corrective measures are put in place," Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

He said that UIDAI has introduced a number of measures to deal with the problem like demographic data quality check, formulating a suspension policy, under which erring operators/supervisors can be blacklisted and debarred from undertaking further enrolments.

Also, the authority has firmed up an enrolment centre monitoring process by empanelling monitors, who can conduct surprise visits of these centres periodically to check compliance of all process/guidelines.