Updated On: 13 December, 2012 08:23 AM IST | | Priyanka Deshpande
Despite the Union Government's order last month to speed up arrangements to issue UID-AADHAAR cards to beneficiaries of various governmental schemes on priority basis, only 30 per cent of the rural population has fulfilled the necessaryformalities.
This time around, it is not a shortage of UID machines behind the process going slow, but because machine operators refuse to work in rural areas, which have a high number of beneficiaries.u00a0
MiD DAY article, “Only 2 per cent work on phase II completed’, published on September 21 revealed how the limited number of machines provided by the non-governmental agencies was hampering the task.