Dj venkatesh
Diglipur, Aug 09: To push the Aadhar or Unique Identity card, the government has made it mandatory to link an Indian citizen’s mobile number to their Aadhar number. Supreme Court of India has also directed all telecom service providers to re-verify its all existing mobile connections latest by 06-02-2018.
As per the rules this is a free service which have to provide by the BSNL vendors to the public. But the public complaints that the vendors were charging for the same, which is ranging to Rs 15-50/-. When public complained to the BSNL officials they replied that it is a free service as the BSNL is paying Rs 5- for this service to the vendors.
Unlike BSNL Bhawan at Port Blair, the BSNL offices in N & M Andaman are not verifying this process.
The BSNL vendors are giving excuse that the Aadhar thumb scanner costs about Rs 4000/- and adding to that there is an additional cost of internet. They say that due to slow internet it is also a time consuming process and hence they charge money.
The administration should open counters at Government offices for making this KYC for Aadhar linking to the SIMs.
