Special camp held to help visually challenged enrol for UID initiative

To ensure students of the Institute for the Blind,Sector 26 attained their Unique Identification (UID) numbers without any hiccups,a special enrolment centre was set up at the institute on Thursday. While a total of 150 students aged between five to 16 years (Class I to XII) study at the institute,the enrolment process was completed for about 25 of them on Thursday.

“While the average time required for enrolment of an individual does not take more than 15 minutes,here we spent about 30 minutes per student,ensuring they were comfortable during the scanning of their fingerprint and Iris,” said an official from Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Some of the students who had their eyes completely closed were exempted from the iris scan,while otherwise at least 60 per cent portion of iris is to be captured during UID enrolment,said an oficial at the centre.

The camp had been organised in collaboration with the Central Bank of India- the key registrar of UIDAI. The authorities will launch another such camp for children of the Vatika School for Deaf and Dumb,Sector 19,next month.