Close to 12,000 Aadhaar enrolment operators suspended in recent months

Nearly 12,000 Aadhaar enrolment operators have been suspended in the last two months due to a technical flaw in the document verification process.

Many of them were seen protesting outside the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI’s) headquarters in New Delhi.

Many operators from parts of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh have been blacklisted.

The protestors demanded that UIDAI should upgrade its software with an option to verify the documents submitted by residents.

“For instance, if someone wants to change the date of birth on the Aadhaar card and submits a PAN card, we don’t have any authority to verify if the document is genuine or not,” said Narendra Kumar Gaud, an operator who was recently blacklisted.