Ladakh residents' Aadhaar cards to reflect UT’s name instead of ‘Jammu and Kashmir’

NEW DELHI: Residents of Ladakh volition present person “Ladakh” alternatively of “Jammu & Kashmir” successful their Aadhaar cards, successful what has been described arsenic a "significant move" to uphold their determination identity. Despite the enactment of Ladakh arsenic a Union territory successful 2019, aft the portion was carved retired of Jammu and Kashmir, which was besides made a Union territory, the Aadhaar records of its residents had continued to bespeak the erstwhile state’s name. According to a property release, lieutenant politician Vinai Kumar Saxena took superior enactment of the contented and directed the Ladakh medication to resoluteness it astatine the earliest. The medication subsequently took up the substance with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the cardinal assemblage liable for issuing Aadhaar cards. “The continued reflection of ‘Jammu and Kashmir’ successful Aadhaar records of Ladakh residents had been causing sizeable inconvenience.

Residents faced difficulties successful utilizing the papers arsenic valid individuality and code impervious portion availing assorted services, arsenic the ‘state’ tract did not correspond to Ladakh’s post-reorganisation status,” the merchandise said. The contented besides affected the due practice of Ladakh successful Aadhaar-linked records and advancement reports. To code this, the medication and UIDAI devised an innovative mechanics to update the “state” tract centrally. Instead of requiring residents to individually sojourn Aadhaar centres, the updation was carried retired utilizing PIN codes circumstantial to Ladakh. These were verified successful coordination with the India Post and shared with UIDAI.