For facilitating the Direct Benefit Transfer to lPG (DBTl) consumers, Chief Secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra has asked the oil marketing companies to enrol the consumers at the distributor and dealer points.
The companies were also asked to draw up a dealer-wise action plan for enrolment with specific date and time and publicise it well in advance of time for information of consumers.
Besides, the UIDAI and ECIl authorities, which are engaged for enrolment of Aadhaar card holders, were advised to draw up GP and village-wise action plans. The Collectors and BDOs were directed to provide necessary administrative support for universal Aadhaar enrolment.
The Chief Secretary emphasised on running an awareness campaign on the usefulness of Aadhaar letter and dates in which teams would reach the panchayats. The Aadhaar authorities were also advised to set up fixed stations at the block and tehsil levels for enrolment of persons who fail to avail the opportunity on the fixed days of the visit of the enrolling team.
Four districts Balangir, Cuttack, Puri and Khurda in the first phase; and three districts, Baleswar, Bhadrak and Sundargarh in the second phase have been enlisted for rollout of DBTl form November 2013 and January 2014, respectively.
As of September 2013, there are around 10,90,135 lPG beneficiaries in all these seven districts which includes 47,687 consumers in Balangir, 2,41,350 in Cuttack, 81,077 in Puri, 3,48,671 in Khurda, 1,74,179 in Baleswar, 61,756 in Bhadrak and 1,36,019 in Sundargarh. All these beneficiaries will be enrolled; their Aadhaar numbers will be generated and these numbers will be linked up with their bank accounts for direct benefit transfer.
The available data form UADAI sources show that as per the 2011 Census, the population of all 30 districts in the State is 4,19,47,358, out of which 244,59,739 have been enrolled by mid-September which is 58 per cent of the total population. Aadhaar letters have been generated for 107,38,153 persons, which is 26 per cent of the population.
Facility of e-Aadhaar has also been launched which can be approached form Common Service Centres. In the four districts enlisted for the first phase rollout of the BDTl, the total population is 82,1, 606 out of which 70,38,762 persons have been enrolled and Aadhaar letters have been generated for 51,00736.