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Govt hospitals to soon start Aadhaar linked birth registration of newborns

Government hospitals and health centres across India will soon start enroling children for Aadhaar – the 12-digit unique identity number – at their premises soon after the child’s birth.

Hospital, community and primary health centres will be provided with a tablet and their staff trained to carry out the enrolment. For generating the unique number, the hospital will get the child’s photograph and biometric detail of one of their parents.

“Enroling children right after birth will ensure better delivery of entitlements and services under Integrated Child Development Scheme and various government run programmes. Not only will it help track the nutritional status of the child from birth but also monitor if anganwadi workers are delivering services at their respective centre,” ABP Pandey, Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) director general, said.

Aadhaar can also be used to track attendance of children in their schools at a later stage, Pandey added. For original and complete post see here

Aadhaar – DBT Impact: 1.6 crore bogus ration card holders and 3.5 crore duplicate beneficiaries weeded out; Savings of Rs 27,000 crore estimated

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, reviewed the progress of Aaadhar and Direct Benefit Transfer programmes at a high level meeting on 9th May 2016.   In the course of the two hour meeting, the Prime Minister was informed about the progress made in Aaadhar number generation, and seeding of official databases with Aaadhar numbers to streamline the process of identification of beneficiaries, and to ensure proper targeting of benefits to the people. It was informed that in 2015-16, an amount of over Rs. 61,000 crore was distributed to over 30 crore beneficiaries, using Direct Benefit Transfer. This includes over Rs. 25,000 crore in MGNREGS, and over Rs. 21,000 crore in PAHAL (for LPG).

DBT has resulted in significant savings across welfare schemes. It has also resulted in weeding out of duplicate beneficiaries. For instance, over 1.6 crore bogus ration cards have been deleted, resulting in savings of about Rs. 10,000 crore. Similarly, 3.5 crore duplicate beneficiaries were weeded out in the PAHAL scheme, resulting in savings of over Rs. 14,000 crore in 2014-15 alone. In MGNREGS too, a saving of Rs. 3000 crore (roughly 10 per cent) has been estimated in 2015-16. Several States and Union Territories too have achieved significant savings through DBT. For complete and original story see here