hubballi the governments new schemes like shakti and gruhalakshmi have forced women of north karnataka to rush to aadhaar centres or common service centres many cards have corrections as the surname has changed by virtue of marriage so there is a rush to update the aadhaar card which is a key document to avail the schemes also some of them are updating their aadhaar with recent photos as they are facing harassment from a few nwkrtc conductors due to old photos vishala a college student who was at an aadhaar update centre on club road said she had got her aadhaar card in 2012 as my face has changed a lot in the 11 years some conductors are suspecting my identity hence i am updating it with my current photo she said shivamma gadag a homemaker alleged that though some banks and post offices have aadhaar updating services they are refusing to update it citing one or the other service girish tatuskar proprietor of a common service centre in lingaraj nagar said many women are rushing to his shop for aadhaar updates however we are allowed to change only the address we are telling women customers to visit karnataka one or any aadhaar update centre for changing names and photographs and for corrections which require biometric details he added lokesh mudiyappanavar operation manager of aadhaar seva kendra said that number of counters has been increased from four to seven to tackle the situation we are not giving weekly offs and leaves for staff unless there is an emergency about 4000 people visited on wednesday alone tokens are issued till monday we can update a maximum of 250 aadhaar cards per day but now we are updating 350 cards per day by extending our working hours from 9am to 6pm which was 930am to 530pm earlier he added a staff at head post office said peoples anxiety has become a problem for smooth service they are quarrelling when the server is down or there are technical issues we are trying our level best to pacify them he added