Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma directed officials to complete Aadhaar seedings by launching a special drive and connecting it with and schemes run by the state government through DBT. She also added that AADHAAR seeding of accounts being opened under NSAP (National Social Assistance Program), MGNREGA and PMJDY should be done within 10 days on mission mode.
The CS was holding a meeting through video conferencing with finance department, MGNREGA, social welfare department along with DDCs, ADSS and lDMs of all banks. The CS further added that new accounts of people should be opened to connect the underprivileged class with Jan Dhan Yojana and NPCI mapping should also be ensured. All unmapped accounts should be reviewed and problems coming to it should be sorted out with the help of bank officials. She said that the difference between seeding and mapping should be sorted out by the government officers. She said that a special campaign should be run in Pakur and Sahibganj and the beneficiaries should be paid through DBT.
According to Verma, seeding of 63,94,193 accounts has already been done out of a total of 83,07,622 accounts opened in the state. Approximately 12 lakh accounts have been opened in the last one month. Moreover, 30,17,833 Rupay cards have also been activated, she said.
During the review, the CS also directed all the pensioners should be paid through DBT. It was directed during the meeting that NPCI mapping of 11, 19 730 accounts has been completed and 12, 88 340 AADHAAR numbers have been collected. Seeding of 78.18 percent accounts has been done.
The CS also directed that all accounts being opened under MGNREGA should be completed within 10 days.
Intense campaign should be run at block level Expenditure Secretary Satender Singh, MGNREGA commissioner Siddharth Tripathi and zonal heads of different banks were also present during the meeting.