Departments asked to integrate Aadhaar number with departmental applications

Chandigarh, September 9, 2014: The Punjab government has taken a major initiative of integrating Aadhaar number of applicants with all service delivery applications and all departments have been asked to collect the Aadhaar numbers of applicants and feed them in their software for proper integration. This initiative is being taken to identify the duplicate and bogus beneficiaries in the database besides bringing transparency in the whole system.
According to an official spokesman, a communiqué has been issued to all Financial Commissioners, Administrative Secretaries saying that task force established under Chief Secretary, Punjab to monitor various e-Governance Projects has decided that presently there are 2.3 crore Aadhaar Cards generated in the state and 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.
The Governance Reforms department has asked all the Departments to start collecting the Aadhaar no./Acknowledgement no. from the people at the time of service application or service delivery or service application and store it in their Departmental Database. Besides this, the Departments have been asked to direct their system integrator for a provision to be made to store Aadhaar no./Acknowledgement no. in the department';s application, so as to fully integrate it with the system.
Giving the details of SRDH, the communication emphasised that SRDH was a state level subset of National Aadhaar Database called Central Identification Repository (CIDR) and it included the information like Aadhaar number, name, address, date of birth, mobile no., email address and photograph of the residents. It said that SRDH can be accessed through a web portal and reports are available to download the village wise list of Aadhaar card holders in PDF format. It can be downloaded at district level and printouts can be shared which will help in Aadhaar seeding.
It was explained that many web services of SRDH can be helpful to the departments to connect the SRDH on demand and get the necessary information through their home servers. The Communication said that demography based search module can also be used to seed Aadhaar into departmental database in-organically.
The Departments have been asked to digitize 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.
The spokesman said that departmental databases seeded with Aadhaar can communicate among each other using the common field-Aadhaar, which will be useful in making state level policies.
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