Aadhaar not valid to enrol for vaccine

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Aadhaar not valid to enrol for vaccine

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Ahmedabad: 16.12.2020

The state government has embarked on its exercise of registering people for the Covid-19 vaccine, but survey teams do not accept Aadhaar card as proof of identity.

Satellite resident Lalita Patel was appalled to learn that the team surveying the area for senior citizens do not accept Aadhaar cards as valid proof. “Team members categorically told me that we should produce some other document like a PAN card or a voter ID card, but not an Aadhaar card,” Patel said.

Another team visiting a society in Bopal said they have been instructed not to accept Aadhaar cards as proof of identity. “The survey form has a column for a photo identification card. A PAN card, driving licence, passport or even a stamped bank passbook with a photograph will be acceptable, but not Aadhaar card,” a member of the survey team said.

District collector Sandip Sagale said, “The main purpose of the exercise is inclusion of everybody and so we are not insisting on Aadhaar card. If people do not have an Aadhaar card, any other authorised document for identification is valid.”