Even as the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has a target to cover the entire population of Bengaluru in one year, inadequate enrollment centres, slow speed of enrollments and cumbersome processes has made it unlikely for the authority to achieve its target.  Moreover, this has led to harassment for the residents, who have to wait in queues for more than five hours for enrollment, said a report in Deccan Chronicle.

The unease due to delay in slow enrollment is getting worse as offices in the city have issued circulars instructing employees to submit copies of their Aadhaar card in a bid to link it to their provident fund account, the newspaper reported. 

“I have been standing in queue for the last five hours. I hope my turn comes today, otherwise I have to take another day’s leave,” D Manohar, an applicant at one of enrolment centres, told the newspaper.

Another applicant, R Chandra, said, “I had applied for my Aadhaar card a year ago along with my wife and daughter, on the same day. My wife and daughter got their cards, but I haven’t. After tracking down I found that my card has been dispatched, but I haven’t yet received it. As it is, getting the card made was time consuming, and on top of that if there are such delays then it becomes very difficult for us to run behind the centres to follow up.”