Haryana Chief Secretary PK Gupta on Tuesday said the State Government is making effort to achieve target of Bank Aadhaar seeding by June 2015 for Direct Benefits Transfer of lPG (DBTl).
In a meeting with Joint Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, Neeraj Mittal, and Deputy Director General, UIDAI, Keshni Anand Arora, he said the modified DBTl scheme which would start from January1, 2015 would include all 21 districts of the State.
He said Haryana has population of 2.54 crore of which 2 crore population has been covered under Aadhaar cards and rest would be covered by June 2015. So far, lPG Aadhaar seeding is 24.41per cent and bank Aadhaar seeding is 15.52 per cent in Haryana.
Gupta said Food and Supply Department has been instructed to maximise Aadhaar linkage by March 2014. In this regard video conference would also be soon organised with Deputy Commissioners.