Monday 20 July 2015

Are you eligible to vote in General Elections 2019

If you are an existing voter with valid voter card or you are going to be eligible to vote in Lok Sabha General Elections 2019 then linking your Aadhaar Card Number with your Voter card or EPIC number (Elector's Photo Identity Card) is of utmost importance as there is every likelihood that voters whose EPIC Number is not linked to Aadhaar Card may not be allowed to cast their votes to check forged and duplicate votes. Now the Government of India has enabled the linking process from the ease of your home by following the 5 easy to follow steps online:
  1. Just open the National Voters Service Portal
  2. Search for your name in voters list by clicking the "search your name in electoral rolls" by filling your name, relation's name, age, date of birth, gender, state, constituency etc.
  3. If your name is already existing in the Voters List then your name and EPIC Number will be displayed. You can search your name by EPIC Number also. 
  4. There is every likelihood that duplicate entries or more entries may get displayed in search results. 
  5. There will a link to feed your Aadhaar Number with valid EPIC Number. Inform your Election Office regarding the duplicate or more EPIC Numbers.
  6. Feed your Aadhaar Number and Name as available in Aadhaar ID.
  7. Register your Mobile Number and/or email ID to get confirmation.
Alternatively you can also link your aadhaar Id with Voter Card Number (EPIC Number) through SMS in the following easy to follow steps:
  • Send SMS to 51969
  • ECLINK <EPIC Number> <Aadhaar Number>
  • Example ECLINK JHI3465780 12345678913 where JHI3465780 is 10 Digit EPIC Number and 123456789123 is 12 Digit Aadhaar Number.
  • You will get confirmation on the mobile number.

How to Link Aadhaar Number with your Benefit Cards

Now Indian citizens can link their aadhaar card numbers with many beneficial schemes of Government of India like:
  1. Scholarships
  2. Pension ID
  3. MNREGA Job card
  4. LPG Subsidy
  5. Other schemes like DigiLocker to be announced by GOI.
Every Indian Citizen can submit the aadhaar seeding application with Unique Identification Authority of India by following 4 easy steps below:

  1. Enter Location Details in the above link.
  2. Chose the Benefit Type. Only the benefit type which is currently available in your location will be visible to you.
  3. Now you are to enter your email ID, Mobile Number and 12 digit Aadhaar Number.
  4. You will receive OTP (one time password) on the Mobile Number entered by you. Please ensure that your mobile number is active at the time of seeding the aadhaar number.
  5. Enter the OTP and the security code displayed on the screen.
You are done. You will receive the following message on your mobile number:

"Your request is registered. The concerned authority will verify and confirm back to you.

You can also link your Aadhaar Number by sending SMS to 51969 as per details here

Note by Author: To avails various facilities online under Digital India the Aadhaar Card holders are advised in their own interest that their Aadhaar Number is duly updated for Email ID and Mobile Number. They should also ensure that there is no conflict in the information under Aadhaar ID and ID under Benefit Cards like LPG, Scholarships. 

Saturday 11 July 2015

Flop Show of DigiLocker by Digital India

Last week I tried to register for DigiLocker to become one of the first users to avail the facility to fulfil the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Bhai Modi but was disappointed to get the following message in red ink:

"Mobile and email is not available in your UIDAI records. Please click here to update and please try again once your record is updated"

I immediately checked my URN (Update Request Number Generated in June 2013 when I was enrolled for Aadhaar card by the authorised agency. I was surprised to see the following items as can be seen in the image URN:
  1. Date of Birth : 13/10/1956 (VERIFIED)
  2. Mobile         :  Not Given
  3. Email          :  Not Given
  4. Documents  :  Passport 
I had filled the form and I correctly entered my mobile number 981491xxxx and email ID as caxxxxxal@gmail.com but the Private Agencies, entrusted to feed Aadhaar Data ignored to fill in the data.

Anyhow to make Digital India dream of our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Bhai Modi, I visited the nearest Aadhaar Card Centre in Rajpura to get my details rectified and I had to pass through the following procedure:

I had to visit the local centre being run by the Punjab Government (Suvidha Centre) and I had to pass through the following procedures to get my Mobile Number and Email updated:
  1. Provide Fresh ID proof where as Passport is already submitted and Aadhar is already issue.
  2. Provide PhotoCopy of Aadhaar Card
  3. Get photographed and through Biometric Procedure.
New URN was Generated and Handed Over to me against payment of Rs.15/- for which no receipt was issued by the Suvidha Centre. No rates have been notified for General Public and it is at the sweet will of the Counter Incharge, which needs to be thoroughly investigated by state Government of Punjab.

New URN Number (update request number) issued on 6th July 2015 issued by Location ID No.281605 reads as under:
  1. Date of Birth : 13/10/1956 (DECLARED)

I am at loss to understand as to Why the Verified Date of Birth in the existing records altered to DeclaredIf every Indian citizen has to undergo all these procedures then it will be wastage of national resources in the shape of manpower, petrol expenses to visit centre, inconvenience to incapacitated persons and senior citizens and above all the delay of the UIDAI project and flop of DIGITAL INDIA abinitio. 


Having been hurt I wrote detailed letter to the UIDAI authorities to probe the case as the irresponsible attitude of the private agencies has put the General Public to inconvenience as with the launch of Digital India they can not register for DigiLocker being provided by GOI. When Private Agencies have taken full payment from UIDAI then they can not escape their responsibility of feeding correct data. An investigations needs to be conducted as to who released the payments to private agencies even for feed incorrect or incomplete data. Now every Indian citizen will have to visit the office of UIDAI to get the data corrected updated.

The UIDAI authorities responded as under: 

Thank you for bringing this matter to our notice. Your case (20150710023449) has been registered with us. 

Please find below our response against your query: 

Query 1(Subcase Id :2015071002344901) We have received your query regarding status of your Aadhaar enrolment. We appreciate your patience and thank you for contacting us. 

Jai Hind 
Aadhaar Sampark Kendra UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA (UIDAI)

However the UIDAI authorities kept silent on the issues raised by me in my email. I once again shot back as under:

Dear CRM Administrator,

It is surprising that you have candidly and deliberately avoided reply to my demand for thorough investigation into the feeding of incorrect and incomplete data by private agencies whereas they were paid handsome amount ( May be running into thousands of crores all over India). It is a national loss as the citizens will have to visit the Aadhaar Centres time and again for no fault of theirs. LIC of India is keeping scanned copies of all documents and proposals so that incorrect data feeding can be rectified at any moment of time just after viewing the scanned documents. I think the DIGITAL INDIA dream of our beloved Prime Minister will be shattered due to improper feeding of data by private agencies entrusted with the feeding of Aadhaar Data. Now the burning issues arise due to casual attitude of private contractors who pocketed the money received from UIDAI after feeding GARBAGE into the system. Let the Government of India recall the public money from private agencies against all incorrect or incomplete data fed by them into the system. Moreover they should be penalized and made accountable for the lapses resulting into harassment to INDIAN citizens ( Wastage of Time, Energy and Manpower to rectify the records). Please look into all the possible effects as per my trailing mail.



I attach herewith both the URN in support of evidence to my claims in previous mail.


Despite all this I am unable to register and sign up for DigiLocker being provided by GOI free of cost to its citizens to keep all their privileged documents under secured environment.