81-year-old seeks Aadhaar exemption for super elderly, writes to PMO

Raipur | Thursday | 15th February, 2018

Summary:

As the whole system of Aadhar related matter totally depends upon online and biometric validation, such cases surface once in a while." In his letter, he requested that super senior citizens should not be tortured and should be exempted from maintaining the Aadhar card as the systems lead to harassment. It was a national headline when few villages in Chhattisgarhs Gariyaband district reported of hundreds of Aadhar cards having same birth dates as January 1. For rural India, it is a major hurdle and risk of being left out of the welfare schemes. If it's not resolved on local level, we will take up the matter with higher authorities..