Aadhaar card registration centre lying closed

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 10

The only Aadhaar card registration centre at the Deputy Commissioner office complex is lying closed for the past four months after the employees of the Suvidha Centre launched a protest.

A visit to the Suvidha Centre revealed that the room which was earlier used for Aadhaar card registration is locked. The contractual employees at Suvidha Centres had started a protest in October last year against the government’s move to shift them to the kendras which are being run by a private company.

The government had later sacked many of the employees. However, as the sacked employees did not deliver the keys of the rooms and cupboards used by them to the administration, the applicants at the Suvidha Centres failed to get their work done.

It was only after a three-member committee was constituted by the district administration to take control of the cupboards and the government documents in them that work was streamlined again recently.

Advocate Kuljeet Singh Malawali said, “Every time we went to the Suvidha Centre to get a copy of the orders given by the SDM in a case, the employees in the office stated that the employee concerned is on protest.”

The Aadhaar registration centre inside the DC office complex was a beneficial facility for the people, as they could get themselves registered along with getting their other works done.

An official of the administration said that 29 other centres being run by private centres were still facilitating Aadhaar registration.