Arms licence without Aadhaar number to be invalid in Haryana

CHANDIGARH:: The Haryana home department has made it clear that all arms licences will be invalid if not generated with unique identification number (UIN) after March 31, 2017.

The department also directed that all licences be fed into new arms licence issuance system (ALIS) and generated with UIN after March 31, 2016.

A spokesman of the department said on Wednesday that all the district magistrates in the state, joint commissioner of police, Faridabad and Gurugram, deputy commissioner of police, Panchkula and state project coordinator, national informatics centre (NIC), Chandigarh had been directed to ensure that all licences fed in the old national database of arms licences (NDAL) system up to April 1, 2016 be generated with UIN number.

They have also been asked to inform within 15 days about the progress made so far in this regard to the office of additional chief secretary, Home.

He said directions had been issued to upload the details of every arms licence on the NDAL or NDAL-ALIS software and UIN of every arms licencee generated on or before March 31, 2017 in NDAL. Also, it has been directed that the officials of the licensing authority would coordinate with the officials of immigration, visa and foreigner’s registration and tracking (IVFRT) of NIC or district informatics officers and get the login ID and password generated.