Aadhaar Rnrolment — The Joke titled “AADHAAR enrolment for getting LPG at a subsidized rate”

Part I: Close Encounter with the Great AADHAAR Seeding Application in the UIDAI Website
Now that the domestic LPG distributors had started asking the customers to submit their aadhaar numbers to continue getting LPG refills at the subsidised rate, I decided to do the needful as soon as I received my e-Aadhaar letter. Now the question is how to do that?
Well, I did what I usually do. I googled “how to enroll aadhar card for LPG”.
The first link was impressive – "AADHAAR Seeding Application - UIDAI":
https://rasf.uidai.gov.in/seeding/User/ResidentSplash.aspx
The link eventually took me to a web form where I needed to fill up few details including my LPG consumer number and as expected, the aadhaar number.
The aadhaar no. text field accepts no more than 12 characters – which certainly makes sense because the aadhaar number cannot have more than 12 digits.
What didn’t make sense was the feature that the text field automatically inserts two characters (hyphens) as separators in between the aadhaar no. so that the text takes the form[protected] and then the validators of the form rejects the number saying that it has more than 12 characters!
Seriously, who developed this web page? More importantly, who tested this? Or, was this ever tested?
Part II: The Final Odyssey
After realizing that the Aadhaar Seeding Application is nothing but a crap, I decided to use the traditional methods – use my phone and call customer care.
BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..
The distributor’s (Indane) website provided a nice web page here:
http://indane.co.in/aadhaar-seeding.php
The call center number is a toll free number [protected]. Called this number from my mobile and it conveniently connected me to an online dating (?) site. Wow!
Second option was to send an SMS to [protected] from my registered mobile number in the form UID Aadhaar number (e.g. UID[protected]. So I did. And it booked a refill for me. Which by the way I am still unable to cancel – no one is picking up the phone and I couldn’t find the option in the website!