More Aadhaar cards than Hyderabad’s population generated

As per projections on the 2011 census, the population of Hyderabad district in 2017 should be around 43 lakh. However, UIDAI has generated 66 lakh Aadhaar cards, a 23 lakh variance. And though the projected population of Rangareddy district is 57.4 lakh, only 50.6 lakh Aadhaar cards have been generated, a shortfall of 6.8 lakh.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

However, the problem was already bad in 2015 itself.

While Aadhaar coverage among the Delhi’s 18-plus age group is the highest at 127.6% of their 2011 headcount, other states reflecting this trend are undivided Andhra Pradesh (113.7%), Himachal Pradesh (112.5%), Sikkim (109.2%), Punjab (109.1%), Kerala (108.6%), Lakshadweep (108%), Jharkhand (107.1%), Chandigarh (106.9%), Goa (106.8%), Puducherry (106.8%), Tripura (103.8%) and Haryana (103.5%).

Incidentally, in Delhi and Telangana, Aadhaar numbers allotted so far stand at 105.9% and 102.9% of their 2011 census population.

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