Aadhaar card enrollment to kick off in Maharashtra and Goa post offices by 2018

Mumbai, November 16: A New Year gift from the government to the citizens of Maharashtra and Goa. The government aims to start Aadhaar card enrolment centres in post offices of the two states. This facility will be available in around 1300 post offices of Maharashtra and Goa.

 

“Those who have not got Aadhaar cards, can now get their unique identity numbers, besides getting (their already issued Aadhaar cards) corrected or updated at our 1,293 post offices, out of the total 2,216, from the beginning of the new year,” says Maharashtra and Goa circle’s Chief Post Master General H C Agrawal.

Almost 4,000 staffers of the postal department are being trained to issue Aadhaar cards to the residents of the circle, he said. The staffers would issue the Aadhaar cards in addition to discharging their postal duties, he added.

The Maharashtra and Goa circle of the India Post has five regions, namely Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Pune and Goa.

Since the Aadhaar card is mandatory for availing various government services, its generation at post offices, whose reach is undebatable, will definitely help the common man.