Huge rush for Aadhar enrolment in Andhra Pradesh

HYDERABAD: There has been a mad rush for enrolment of Aadhar registration in Hyderabad and several other parts of Andhra Pradesh in view of the decision by oil companies to provide LPG cylinders on subsidy on the basis of Aadhar cards from February 15.

Traffic came a halt on the busy Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway on the city outskirts yesterday with people holding protests as they did not get Aadhar application forms.

In several other parts of the state like Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam too, people complained of unavailability of application forms and also inadequate number of enrolment centres.

Seeking to ease the situation, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is presently on a visit to Delhi, spoke to the top officials of central government on the issue today and urged them to extend the February 15 deadline, an official release said.

State Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu had earlier written to Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily to extend the deadline as Aadhar enrolment is not yet complete.

Sridhar Babu today assured the people not to worry or be agitated over the matter as the Centre would extend the February 15 deadline.

He said 200 more Aadhar enrolment centres, in addition to the existing 210, would be opened in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts to cope with the rush of applicants for the cards.