shimla delays in engaging vendors for enrolling resident under biometric unique identification uid programme notwithstanding himachal pradesh intends to provide this facility to all its residents by may 2012work for capturing biometric data and issuing uid cards is under way in three of the four zones that the state has been divided into for the programme in shimla district it was launched on thursday in other parts of the state 748 lakh people or 1091 of the population have been registeredenrolment is picking up in mandi kangra and hamirpur zones and pricing problems in shimla zone have been sorted out with uid registration being launched in the capital on thursday said director of information technology rajneesh kumar over 100 datacapturing centres would be opened in sirmaur solan and kinnaur which make up shimla zone he addedtarget for getting details of all 6856 lakh people recorded in the provisional 2011 census data has been set as may 2012 but where the project was rolled out earlier like in hamirpur zone the completion target is december 2011 he saidin una district where the uid enrollment is nearing completion plans are afoot to issue ration cards based on uid number for containing pilferage in public distribution system pdswherever an internet connection is available the biometric verification would be conducted online and where there is no connectivity biometric data of the concerned individuals would be stored on computers at the pds centre the official explained