Adhaar registration of all the students of the state will be completed by December 31. As per the letter of the Union Government, work related to adhaar registration of all the school students has been started by the school education department from last October 06, 2015. Adhaar registration of around 1.81 crore students have been completed against a target of 2 crore 34 lakh school students between age group of 5 to 18 years.
Directives have been issued by the School Education Secretary Smt. Deepti Gaur Mukherjee to all the district Collectors to complete the work by December 31, 2016. Arrangements have to be made to register all the students who are enrolled in the schools till November 16 for adhaar registration after obtaining list from the Samagra Shiksha portal. Special adhaar registration camps will be organized from November 21. Cooperation of Panchayats, School management committees and parents –teachers organistion will be taken for this work.
It may be mentioned that the state government is mulling to link adhaar with the grant to provide benefit to the eligible beneficiaries in a transparent manner under the Sarvashiksha evam Rashtrita Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan. Scheme is under consideration to provide all the scholarships to the students through transfer of scholarship amount to their bank account on the basis of adhaar registration.
Directives to all the district Collectors have been issued by the Secretary School Education for weekly review today. Adhaar seeding work of bank accounts of all the students will be done on priority after the adhaar registration. Review of seeding work will be made by the district collector with the lead banks of the districts. Directives to get the students of private schools registration along with government schools were also given today by the Secretary School Education Department Mukherjee. As per the directives, all the district education officers are asked to provide information of the completed work in the prescribed format to the Commissioner Pubic Instructions by December 31, 2016.