New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has suspended 1.2 per cent of Aadhar operators last year for attempting fraudulent activities
The Unique Identification Authority of India is estimated to have 99,000-1 lakh operators who enroll individuals as well as provide other Aadhaar services like name correction, address change etc.
“About 1.2 per cent of total operators have been suspended in the last one year, due to attempted fraudulent activities. Necessary penal action is taken in such cases,” UIDAI said in a statement.
It further said it had taken the following steps towards strengthening Aadhaar Enrolment/Update eco system:
a) To discourage mischievous operators from misusing the system, GPS fencing has been embedded in the Enrolment machines. An operator is required to verify the credentials of the Enrolment machine regularly with the UIDAI data centre and only a limited number of enrolments are allowed per day per machine.
b) With Aadhaar saturation reaching near universal, Adult enrolments is now happening at restricted number of centers. Trusted and verified operators of enrolment Agencies only are allowed to carry out new enrolments.
c) The State governments have been roped in for quality check of all new adult enrolments.
d) An updated and user friendly list of supporting documents required for Aadhaar enrolment and update has been notified.
e) UIDAI regularly carries out inspection to find out deviant behavior among operators. UIDAI does benching and retraining of operators on a regular basis.
