By IANS,
New Delhi: The Department of Posts and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have entered into a two-year agreement under which India Post will deliver the unique identity numbers and related communication to citizens.
The memorandum of understanding on this was signed April 30, an official statement said here Saturday.
The department, with a vast network of 155,015 post offices of which around 90 percent are in the rural area, would use its flagship product, Speed Post, for the purpose.
“The department is also successfully implementing the work of distribution of nearly 10,000 tonnes of census material from 15 printing presses to nearly 12,000 municipal level locations across the country,” the statement said.
It will also undertake the reverse logistics for collection of filled up census forms from these locations and delivery them to the respective directorates of census operations and scanning centres.
Whenever and wherever it is required by the authority, the department will also do biometric authentication of each letter delivered, the statement added.