The Punjab Government on Tuesday asked all its departments to collect Aadhaar number of those applying for any of their services and prepare a database for effective implementation of e-governance in the State.
The Governance Reforms department has asked all the departments to start collecting the Aadhaar number or acknowledgment number from the people at the time of service application or service delivery, and store it in their departmental database. This initiative is being taken to identify the duplicate and bogus beneficiaries in the database, besides bringing transparency in the whole system.
A communiqué has been issued to all Financial Commissioners, Administrative Secretaries saying that task force established under the state Chief Secretary to monitor various e-Governance projects has decided that all departments should take steps to share the benefits of State Resident Data Hub (SRDH) and Aadhaar Seeding for universal integration of Aadhaar with all departmental applications. So far, 2.3 crore Aadhaar cards have been generated in the State.
The Departments have been asked to digitise their beneficiary masters through populating records from SRDH by collecting Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries as seeding of Aadhaar would help the department in identifying the duplicate and bogus beneficiaries in their database.