Many residents of fishing hamlets in the city are finding it difficult to update records in Aadhar and other documents such as nativity certificates due to lack of proper addresses. They claim this is because the names of streets and localities are missing in the records.
Kabaddi Maran of Nochikuppam said: “We found this during our attempts to obtain nativity certificates. The State government had announced that we could get the nativity certificates without any fee as there were issues with the addresses on Aadhar and voter ID cards. When I tried changing my address, the name of my street and area were not found online. The person at the E-Seva centre said that he can update only certain details.”
Sathyan, a resident of Kovalam, said that many residents in his area faced issues due to a mismatch between old and new house numbers. “The panchayat has provided us with new house numbers, but the ID cards have old numbers. If we are to change details in our Aadhar cards, it takes over a day at the E-seva centre, and if we do not have the requisite documents, the system won’t accept the changes. We are afraid that the mismatch might affect updation of records in the SIR exercise,” he said.
