The adalats being held by the state government at flood affected areas were now using this facility.

Thiruvananthapuram: The recent concerns regarding security of Aadhaar has slightly affected the state government's single window facility to issues various certificates lost by people in the floods.

According to sources, the option of searching Aadhaar using bio-metric identification like finger print was affected. It was learnt that the Unique Identification Authority of India has temporarily frozen the provision owing to the security concerns.

However, the UIDAI has provided a facility to search Aadhaar details using multiple parametres like name and date of birth.

The adalats being held by the state government at flood affected areas were now using this facility.

IT secretary M Sivasankar said that though there was an issue a solution was worked out. Hence the adalats were progressing. He also said that about 336 certificates could be issued at the adalat at Green Park auditorium in Aluva on Tuesday.

It was learnt that a senior official from Unique Identification Authority of India had also come down to Thiruvananthapuram the other day to sort out the issue. Senior officials from state IT department would be also going to Unique Identification Authority of India office in Bengaluru soon in this regard.

Various certificates like ration card, SSLC book, driving licence, vehicle registration certificates, birth, marriage and death certificate and various certificates issued by the revenue department through the e-District facility could be issued on the spot at the single window facility.