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Jharkhand BPL families to get incentives for Aadhaar The Government of Jharkhand has decided to give incentives to families living below the poverty line (BPL) to get the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) project rolling. A token amount of `100 will be given as a financial incentive to BPL families to get each of their members enrolled for Aadhaar. Further, the state UIDAI is also said to be considering the possibility of giving incentives to introducers who would aid in the identification of BPL families and the illiterate. The incentives will
be credited directly in the bank accounts of Aadhaar card holders. UIDAI will be issuing the Aadhaar cards in five districts of Jharkhand—Ranchi, Hazaribag, Lohardaga, Dhanbad and Deoghar—where the project has been launched initially. The rural development department, registrar department for the project, has planned to offer Aadhaar cards to about 38 lakh Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers and BPL families in the first phase. The
plan is to make payments of wages to MGNREGA workers through Aadhaar numbers. Jharkhand is
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Goa dept to offer e-tracking for all land record details
The Directorate of Settlement and Land Records (DSLR) in Goa is planning a Web-based system where all survey numbers of land in Goa and their details will be visible on the Internet for viewers. The facility will allow anyone, anywhere in the world to log on to the Website and access the land
records in Goa. This would be especially beneficial to non-resident Goans who can track any parcel of land of interest to them and even print the records through a payment gateway. In particular, nonresident Goans who own properties in Goa, will be the immediate beneficiaries. In case of any change in the details of their property such as ownership, they can track the changes immediately because of the computerisation of the land records
in Goa and the online updating of records. DSLR had recently bagging the national level ‘Land Records Information System’ award. Goa bagged the award among 140 other entries because of the unique features of the system such as the integrated land records which are a combination of text and graphic data. Another unique feature of the system is that it instantly updates the records when land acquisition takes place.
one of the few states where issuance of cards began soon after the formal countrywide launch of the project.
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Haryana to e-track expecting mothers’ health As part of a pilot project in the rural areas of Kurukshetra, Kiathal and Rohtak districts of Haryana, children up to the age of five and expecting women are being issued a 16-digit unique identification number to keep track of their health. The pilot has been taken under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and will gradually be extended to the entire state. Initially, the unique identification number will
be used for keeping track of ante-natal and post-natal vaccination and immunisation schedules. As of now, immunisation schedule of pregnant women and children and other health related-data of every village are maintained manually in registers. The modalities of the project are reportedly being worked out for the state of Punjab too.
Haryana SIC to launch SMS service for case status queries The State Information Commission (SIC) of Haryana, in association with Hyderabad-based Centre for Good Governance will be implementing an SMSbased system to provide status of RTI cases filed
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with SIC. Upon completion of the project, citizens will be able to instantly get replies to queries like status of appeals, complaints, decision and the date of hearing for their respective cases. The required train-
ing has reportedly been imparted to the SIC staff on the use of the software. The Commission will be issuing a set of numbers on which people would be sending their queries. The information commission in Andhra Pradesh
already has this SMS-based service in place for similar queries. SIC in Haryana will be the second such body to provide the service to appellants. SIC Haryana is also in the process of revamping its Website so that appeals are filed online as well.
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India Transport card to arrive next year A common transport card, which can be used for all modes of travel—buses, trains, metros, and taxis, excluding airplanes—is being planned by the Union Urban Development ministry. The card, which is also being called the India Mobility Card, could see initial deployments as early as the next
year. The ministry will soon hold a nationwide competition on the design of the cards, their logo and their final name. While the card will be introduced in chosen cities across various states to begin with, officials say that the goal is to have a single ticketing system tying the country. This
would obviate the need to buy tickets. Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore and Mumbai have reportedly been chosen for the launch. A similar ticketing system is already in place in many cities across the world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Seattle, San Francisco,
card system. UTITSL is a government agency and a non-banking financial institution under the Reserve Bank of India. The ministry plans to extend the use of the card further to payment of tax on national highways, and even finally for utility payments, car parking, and shopping.
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MHRD to use UID for tracking child development According to a MoU signed between Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI), the Government of India is planning to provide unique identification (UID) numbers to all
Stockholm, Gothenburg and Rome. Earlier this year, the Ministry engaged UTITSL, a fully owned PSU of the Ministry of Finance, to work on the concept of the Common Mobility Cards as well as the Automatic Fare Collection system, which is to be linked to the
school children above five years age to track their progress at every stage. The basis of the MoU is that while fingerprint stability begins at the age of 15, the iris stabilises at the age of five. Therefore, children above five can be mapped biometrically and issued UID numbers.
Biometric data collection will be done through enrolling agencies. Ministry of HRD will be using the database to keep track of students’ progress on the basis of parameters such as attendance and grades. Students’ movements from primary and secondary to higher education will be tracked and movement from one institution to another will also be monitored. Additionally, the UID numbers can be used to track children immunisation programs and can also be used to weed out bogus entries from welfare schemes like the mid-day meal scheme.
Govt sector demand to push India CCTV market growth A recent report by market research and information analysis firm RNCOS has indicated that the Indian CCTV market is poised to grow at 34 percent CAGR during the 2010-12 period. According to the report titled India’s globalisation and rising security concerns demonstrated the importance of electronics security equipments and services. “This diversified requirement of security applications was driven by the strong demand from government and other entities,” the report said. It further stated that government establishments in India were gearing up to install video
surveillance systems at public places and sensitive government buildings. An end-user analysis pointed out that the government and public sector demand was high for overall security systems, followed by industrial and commercial sector, the RNCOS release said. The report estimated the Indian electronics security market at around `1,600 crore in 2008, with CCTV accounting for more than a third of the market. This segment has been growing at a much faster rate than other segments such as access control, intrusion alarm or fire detection alarm.
Kerala plans more G2C services through Akshaya centres The Government of Kerala will soon be piloting new citizen services through the state-wide network of Akshaya centres. The pilots are expected to be launched in Kannur and Plakkad districts. The government will reportedly designate
Akshaya centres as the front-end for governmentto-citizen (G2C) services of all departments. “A total of 40 such new services are expected to be rolled out under the e-District programme through Akshaya centres,” informed Dr Ajay Kumar, Principal
Secretary IT, Kerala. He further informed that the FREES software developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) will help the state add new G2C services in real time. The project is expected to be completed by March 2011.
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