Thursday, September 26, 2013

Concern over poor Aadhar enrolment

BHUBANESWAR: Among growing concern over poor enrolment for 'Aadhar', the initial identity number, chief secretary, Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, includes a known as a conference of authorities concerned here on September 21. The identification number is required for direct benefits transfer (DBT) plan, that the Union government has made the decision to produce in four districts of Odisha from November 1.

Sources within the Directorate of Census Procedures here, which supervises the information collection process, stated biometric data close to 56 lakh individuals have been collected during these four districts, where DBT is scheduled to become folded out to cook gas, against a specific population of 75 lakh. Around 15 lakh of those 56 lakh individuals have really got the Aadhar cards, as the relaxation continue to be waiting for it.

The main secretary will measure the situation in the ending up in the authorities of finance, food and civil supplies and Census.

The Electronics Corporation asia Limited (ECIL), the PSU hired to gather the biometric data for that Census government bodies, has enrolled 13 lakh individuals Balangir district against an qualified population of 15 lakh.

It's collected biometric information of 18 lakh people against 23 lakh target population in Cuttack and 12 lakh in Puri from the target of 17 lakh. 13 lakh from 20 lakh in Khurda happen to be enrolled. The greatest worry for that government is that lots of individuals already enrolled are becoming messages their programs happen to be declined because of "data/process error. Please re-enroll."

The Union government has made the decision to create LPG subsidy during these four districts under DBT to start with. Right after, 30 different central schemes can come under DBT in Puri, Cuttack and Balangir districts and 29 schemes (excluding LPG) in Sonepur district. For Khurda, only LPG can come underneath the DBT according to the present plan.

Based on the norms, the Census government bodies will need to capture data of three.78 crore population (all individuals above 5 years old) within the condition. Of these, it's already taken biometric data close to 2.11 crore. As on September 9, the initial Identification Authority asia (UIDAI) has processed data close to one crore and released Aadhar cards to some meagre 30 lakh people, sources stated.

The sources stated data of individuals persons enrolled two times appears to become showing errors. The confusion might be because UIDAI had taken the information of many people through private agencies hired because of it as the Census government bodies began collecting exactly the same information once more through different agencies.

Census government bodies stated steps are now being come to cover the whole qualified population within the DBT districts on the priority basis.

"We're planning the 2nd phase of biometric enrolment in DBT districts on priority to make sure that all persons get Aadhar amounts prior to the condition of DBT on LPG. We'll also expedite the information collection in other districts," stated director (Census) Bishnupada Sethi.

On rejection of some individuals data, Sethi stated, "We've adopted the problem with UIDAI to look at why some enrolments happen to be declined.

Based on the norms, the Census government bodies will need to capture data of three.78 crore population (all individuals above 5 years old) within the condition. Of these, it's already taken biometric data close to 2.11 crore

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