Over the past few years, there have been many instances of residents complaining to the Chennai Corporation Commissioner whenever zonal level officials asked residents to produce Aadhaar for civic services. “This will also integrate Greater Chennai Corporation data with other departments,” said the official. Council decision“For Aadhaar linkage, Greater Chennai Corporation has to enrol as a sub authentication user agency,” said an official. The application of sub authentication user agency under Regulation 15 of Aadhaar (Authentication) Regulations, 2016 will be submitted shortly. So the Special Officer’s Council of the Chennai Corporation Commissioner should not take such major decisions without a debate,” said Mr. Jawahar.

Source: The Hindu November 21, 2017 19:30 UTC