Workshop on 'Simplifying Aadhaar Usage' held
Source: Chronicle News Service / DIPR
Imphal, September 07 2022:
As part of the effort to promote Aadhaar usage by states, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Regional Office (RO), Guwahati organised a state level workshop on 'Recent Initiatives for Simplifying Aadhaar Usage' on Wednesday.
As chief guest of the workshop, chief secretary Dr Rajesh Kumar said that Aadhaar is instrumental in delivery of social welfare schemes and urged the state government departments to notify Section-7 in schemes for implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
CEO UIDAI, Dr Saurabh Garg spoke on the progress made by Aadhaar in the past decade, saying that Aadhaar authentication provides an instant mechanism to prove one's identity through online authentication.
He further said that UIDAI will continue its efforts for improving the Ease of Living for residents and urged the state government to implement DBT in every service delivery scheme to bring transparency.
Additional chief secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam along with senior officials from the state government attended the workshop and gave detailed presentation on the progress of Aadhaar enrolment and initiatives taken to implement DBT.
In spite of difficult terrains, the government of Manipur has undertaken rigorous efforts to cover more than 80% population.
The best practices adopted by the state were also explained during the workshop.
Speaking on the occasion, DDG UIDAI, RO Guwahati, Devajit Khound explained how Aadhaar has become the core of India's digital public infrastructure.
Aadhaar with its inherent features of uniqueness, authentication, financial address and e-KYC has helped the government authorities to directly reach residents for delivery of various subsidies, benefits and services, he explained and further informed that Aadhaar is verifiable anytime, anywhere both online as well as off-line in a cost-effective way.
Devajit also emphasised on use of Aadhaar in every social welfare scheme to bring transparency/visibility in the existing system and urged the state government that benefits will be provided to the beneficiaries through Aadhaar Enabled Payment System for last mile delivery.
All the sessions of the workshop deliberated on Aadhaar features, key developments on usage of Aadhaar, data privacy and information security.
Joint secretary of DBT Mission, Saurabh Tiwari highlighted various features of DBT and its implementation procedures for the state government.
Officials from UIDAI discussed and highlighted the importance of DBT and the issuance of Section-7 Gazetted notifications for the schemes and benefits disbursed from the state consolidated fund.
Discussions pertaining to Section 4(4) (b) (ii) was also held for issuance of notification under good governance.