Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba has instructed to ensure that all residents of the State — including children below three years and senior citizens — get their UID enrolment done in a set time frame. The CS, while holding the 13th UID Executive Committee meeting at Project Building on Tuesday also ordered to set up special cell to probe irregularities in the Biometric Attendance system in the State.
Gauba said senior citizens and children below three years were not able to register with Aadhar because of technical reasons. Therefore, Anganwadi Centres could be used to get them enrolled with the UID to complete enrolment of all residents of State. He said a date could be fixed for the enrolment at Anganwadi centres.
Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification Authority of India AB Pandey suggested apart from Pragya Kendras, Anganwadi Sevikas would give certificates to children below three years. The date of birth and names of children’s parents would be mentioned in the certificates. later at the age of five years and 15 years the children could get biometric verification.
Pandey said Jharkhand had done a very good work under India Post Project. The objective of this project was to make a better environment between postal staff at the post office and people who came to the offices. He said the programme was basically improving quality of services in the commercial areas and providing secure connectivity by IT services. Principal Secretary of IT Department NN Sinha gave a presentation on the status of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes in the State and also dwelt upon the work plan of the DBT Cell in next six months.