Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
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Last mile connectivity between beneficiaries and welfare schemes aimed toward them has been thought-about one of many necessary differentiators between the Narendra Modi authorities’s implementation of schemes and people of others, with the BJP led Uttar Pradesh authorities now going a step additional.
In late January this yr, the State authorities launched a 12 digit household identification quantity scheme whereby information from 17 authorities departments has been sought to be collated, data concerning scheme beneficiaries, tallying them with ration and Aadhar playing cards and arriving at a family or household identification quantity. Currently information for 3.6 crore households and 15 Aadhar validated ration card holders is already obtainable within the state, with the ration card quantity being the household ID quantity, for these with out ration playing cards, an enrolment course of is now underway.
“We basically found from data from different departments, that in one family, one person was receiving old age pension, but had no ration card or the family had no ration card, whereas the criteria for receiving pensions and the ration cards are the same. For example, the social welfare department showed 5.60 lakh beneficiaries of old age pension, but have no ration card, so now we are on to ground truthing, and getting ration cards made for beneficiaries who don’t have the cards,” stated Asim Arun, minister for social welfare.
The scheme is much like the Kutumba mission of the Karnataka authorities which goals to supply a singular id to resident households of the state and function a repository of the resident attributes, permitting them to suo moto, with out paperwork, entry advantages because of them, after the ID has been registered.
“Its been barely two months since the project is on, we are hoping to provide family IDs to all beneficary families, and plug any leaks in terms of delivery, as in the case of old age pension holders also getting ration cards, etc,” stated Mr Arun.
Politically, final mile connectivity through direct profit switch and Aadhar has been a recreation changer for the BJP, making a “labarthi” or beneficiary class of voters for the get together. With the Family ID programme, the Yogi Adityanath authorities desires to make sure that the labarthi is firmly rooted within the BJP camp.
Source: www.thehindu.com
