DNA: Mumbai: Thursday, May 02, 2013.
The state has
charged penalties of more than Rs5.5 crore from various contractors authorised
for Aadhaar card enrollment.
The state has
charged penalties of more than Rs5.5 crore from various contractors authorised
for Aadhaar card enrollment. The details
were made available through a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by
Anand Pargaonkar.
Around 13
agencies are given the contract to enroll people for Aadhar cards. Details
provided by the state’s IT department to Pargaonkar up to 2013, 11 of 13
agencies were fined Rs5,61,90,790.
Tera Software
Ltd was levied the maximum penalty of Rs1.85 crore for delay in uploading the
packet (data) as per UIDAI guidelines. Others were fined for similar reasons.
The second
highest, Rs87.68 lakh, was levied on Strategic Outsourcing Services, followed
by GSS America Infotech Ltd – Rs 65.67 lakh – and Mahaonline Ltd – Rs64.11
lakh.
“Suspension
or cancellation of licences depends on various aspects. It could be lack of
better crowd control or supervisors to check how the enrollment is being done,
or too many people being given slips at the same time, or the quality of
bio-metric data collected,” state IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal said. “When we
cancel contracts, we inform the UIDAI to stop receiving packets from those agencies.
Contracts are suspended as a preventive measure, sometimes till the time
corrective measures are taken.”
Pargaonkar
said the state needs to spruce up services. “Despite fines and suspension of
contracts at centres. people continue to have a bad time. They have to stand in
queues for long hours or are sent back home without a proper response.”
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