In yet another effort to ‘push’ students to enrol for Aadhaar, the Department of Primary and Secondary has set March 2016 as the deadline to get the card. In a circular issued recently, the department has said that Rs. 3 crore will be spent on mobile registration units.
The department has been trying to get students enrol despite an apex court ruling that having an Aadhaar card is not mandatory. School managements have been asked to collect details of those who have Aadhaar cards and the department, along with the Centre for E-governance, has begun conducting drives across all schools — government, aided and unaided — in the State to enrol students for Aadhaar. As per department statistics, 50.8 lakh of the one crore students are yet to register for Aadhaar.
