To provide a unique identity to each family in the state, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday launched a ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ Portal here on Thursday.

Addressing a news conference, the chief minister said this will help in providing benefits of government schemes in a transparent and easy manner to the people with the extensive use of information technology.

Khattar said that the ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ will provide a unique identity to complete family and it would have name of the head of the family on top. The name of family member will be added to the ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ right after his birth and after marriage of a girl her name will be transferred to the ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ of her in-laws.

He said that for this, the head of the family will have to deposit the form with full details of his family with his signature at Atal Sewa Kendra or Antyodaya Sewa Kendra, which will be updated by the departments concerned.

After updating, the person will be allowed to take out two prints. He said that it would be very easy to search on the portal for updates. After filling the name or the name of the father, it will give option, which will have to be filled, he added.

Khattar said that on December 25, 2014, the e-registry online service was started on Good Governance Day and now 495 services and schemes of about 17 departments are available online. He said that today, people visit government offices to get information and benefits of schemes, but in future, the benefits of schemes will provided to the people at their doorsteps.

He said that the registration of all the cremation grounds and graveyards has also been completed. The chowkidars in the villages and municipalities in the cities will submit the details of the last rites performed in their cremation grounds and in the graveyards, for which they will be given incentive.

 The Chief Minister said that the Government is working on making the Parivar Pehchan Patra at war footing to not only ensure automatic delivery of various citizen-centric services to people, but to curb corruption completely.

With the creation of the database of all the families, the benefits of social welfare schemes will reach the actual beneficiaries automatically and remove duplicity.

 He congratulated the teams of the NIC and Planning Department for preparing this portal and said that this Portal will speed up the operation of achieving hundred per cent success in the 'Mera Parivar-Meri Pehchan’ programme.