Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, April 3

With all three Aadhaar card updating machines out of order, residents of around 30 villages as well as Dirba city are facing serious problems. Residents are making repeated rounds for the issuance of new cards and updation of the old ones.

“The bank authorities have warned me that if I do not give them my card, they will stop the release of my pension. I do not have any other source of income. I have been making repeated rounds of bank, post office and Sewa Kendra for the last more than three months for the issuance of my card,” said Ram Singh, a visually challenged man from Gujran village.

For the updation of old cards and issuance of new ones, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) authorities have set up three machines in Sewa Kendra, post office and the State Bank of India branch, Dirba. However, due to some to technical problem, all three machines have been lying non-functional for the last three months. The authorities claimed that they had written time and again to the UIDAI authorities to rectify the problem.

“It’s my fourth visit in the last 10 days for the updation of my address in the card, but the bank authorities say the machine is not working. If the authorities are unable to operate it, then why it has been placed here,” asked Kultar Singh, a local.

“There is some technical problem in the card machine and we have informed our seniors. We are trying to rectify it at the earliest,” said Krishna, an employee at the Dirba post office.

Hardeep Singh, an operator of the machine at the SBI, Dirba, said the machine was not generating code to make it functional. “I have sought a report from Sewa Kendra employees. We will write to the UIDAI authorities for quick action,” said Pavitar Singh, SDM, Dirba.