As part of effort to promote Aadhaar usage by States, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Regional Office, Ranchi organized a State Level workshop on ‘Recent Initiatives for Simplifying Aadhaar Usage’ for the State of Jharkhand on Tuesday. The workshop was chaired by Development Commissioner, Jharkhand, Arun Kumar Singh.
Several senior officers from the Jharkhand Government, Banks, BSNL, NIC and Department of Posts and officials of Centre Government attended the workshop.
Notable amongst the senior Jharkhand state Government officers were Rahul Sharma, Secretary, Department of Planning and Development, Himani Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food Processing and KN Jha, Secretary, DoIT & e-Governance.
The four sessions of the workshop deliberated on Aadhaar features, Key Developments on Usage of Aadhaar, Best Practices of state of Jharkhand, Data Privacy & Information Security. National Payment Corporation of India gave a presentation on Direct Benefit Transfers and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System. The sessions also elaborated on various Aadhaar online services and how UIDAI has made efforts to make enrolment and updation services a frictionless experience for the residents.
Speaking on the occasion, Akhilesh Kumar Gupta, Deputy Director General, UIDAI, Regional Office, Ranchi said that Aadhaar brings digital revolution not only in India but many countries of the world are keenly interested to adopt this technology. He explained Aadhaar has become the core of India’s digital public infrastructure. He added that UIDAI is continuously working on simplifying Aadhaar usage. Deputy Director General, UIDAI, HQ discussed the inherent features and Uniqueness of Aadhaar he added Aadhaar is verifiable both online as well as off-line in a cost-effective way.
Arun Kumar Singh said that more schemes will be covered under Aadhaar and the State Government is working on it. Rahul Kumar Sharma said that nowadays, Aadhaar is unavoidable and helped the government authorities to directly reach residents for delivery of various subsidies, benefits and services. Himani Pandey, said that Aadhaar made life easier and also monitoring of Government schemes. Kripanand Jha said that with the help of Aadhaar we are able to eliminate duplicates.