THE

JHARKHAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

5 BAISHAKH, 1944 (S)

RANCHI, MONDAY, 25^th APRIL, 2022

Home, Jail and Disaster Management Department

(Home Division)

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NOTIFICATION

29^th AUGUST, 2021

Annex-1: Sample Template of Aadhaar Section 7 Notification for the State

Schemes where beneficiaries are other than children

NO.-S 03207(E).--Whereas, the use of Aadhaar as an identity document for

delivery of services or benefits or subsidies simplifies the Government delivery

processes, brings in transparency and efficiency, and enables beneficiaries to get their

entitlements directly in a convenient and seamless manner by obviating the need to

produce multiple documents to prove one's identity;

And whereas, the Home, Jail and Disaster Management Department (Home

Division)(hereinafter referred to as the Department), is administering the

Special/Medical Allowance to freedom fighters/dependents(hereinafter referred to as

the Scheme) to freedom fighters/dependents, which is being implemented through the

Deputy Commissioner of respective District of the State(hereinafter referred to as the

Implementing Agency(ies));

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And

whereas,

under

the

Scheme,

Special/Medical Allowance to freedom

fighters/dependents (hereinafter referred to as the benefit) is given to the freedom

fighters/dependents(hereinafter referred to as the beneficiaries), by the Implementing Agency

as per the extant Scheme guidelines;

And whereas, the aforesaid Scheme involves recurring expenditure incurred from the

Consolidated Fund of jharkhand:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of

Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016) (hereinafter

referred to as the said Act), the government of jharkhand hereby notifies the following,

namely:-

1. (1) An individual eligible for receiving the benefits under the Scheme shall

hereby be required to furnish proof of possession of the Aadhaar number or undergo

Aadhaar authentication.

(2) Any individual desirous of availing benefits under the Scheme, who does

not possess the Aadhaar number or, has not yet enrolled for Aadhaar, shall be

required to make application for Aadhaar enrolment before registering for the

Scheme provided that he is entitled to obtain Aadhaar as per section 3 of thesaid Act.

and such individuals shall visit any Aadhaar enrolment centre (list available at the

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) website www.uidai.gov in) to get

enrolled for Aadhaar.

(3) As per regulation 12 of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016; the

Department through its Implementing Agency, is required to offer Aadhaar enrolment

facilities for the beneficiaries who are not yet enrolled for Aadhaar and in case there is

no Aadhaar enrolment centre located in the respective Block or Taluka or Tehsil, the

Department through its Implementing Agency shall provide Aadhaar enrolment facilities

at convenient locations in coordination with the existing Registrars of UIDAI or by

becoming a UIDAI Registrar themselves:

Provided that till the time Aadhaar is assigned to the individual, benefits under the

Scheme shall be given to such individual, subject to the production of the following

documents, namely

(a) if he has enrolled, his Aadhaar Enrolment Identification slip; and

(b) any one of the following documents, namely :-

(i) Bank or Post office Passbook with Photo; or

(ii) Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card; or

(iii) Passport: or

(iv) Ration Card; or

(v) Voter Identity Card: or

(vi) MGNREGA card; or

(vii) Kisan Photo passbook: or

(viii)

Driving license issued by the Licensing Authority under the Motor

Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988); or

(ix) Certificate of identity having photo of such person issued by a Gazetted

Officer or a Tehsildar on an official letter head; or

(x) any other document as specified by the Department:

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Provided further that the above documents may be checked by an officer specifically

designated by the Department for that purpose.

2. In order to provide benefits to the beneficiaries under the Scheme

conveniently, the Department through its Implementing Agency shall make all the required

arrangements to ensure that wide publicity through the media shall be given to the beneficiaries to

make them aware of the said requirement.

3.

In all cases, where Aadhaar authentication fails due to poor biometrics of thebeneficiaries or

due to any other reason, the following remedial mechanisms shall be adopted, namely:-

(a) in case of poor fingerprint quality, iris scan or face authentication facility shall be

adopted for authentication. thereby the Department through its Implementing Agency

shall make provisions for iris scanners or face authentication along with finger-print

authentication for delivery of benefits in seamless manner:

(b) in case the biometric authentication through fingerprints or iris scan or face authentication

is not successful, wherever feasible and admissible authentication by Aadhaar One

Time Password or Time-based One-Time Password with limited time validity, as the case

may be, shall be offered;

(c) in all other cases where biometric or Aadhaar One Time Password or Time-based One-

Time Password authentication is not possible, benefits under the Scheme may be

given on the basis of physical Aadhaar letter whose authenticity can be verified through

the Quick Response (OR) code printed on the Aadhaar letter and the necessary

arrangement of QR code reader shall be provided at the convenient locations by the

Department through its Implementing Agency.

4.

In addition to the above, in order to ensure that no bona fide beneficiary underthe Scheme

is deprived of his due benefits, the Department through its Implementing Agency shall

follow the exception handling mechanism as outlined in the Office Memorandum of DBT Mission,

Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India dated 19^th December 2017.

5.

This notification shall come into effect from the date of its publication in the Official

Gazette.

Shekhar Jamuar,

Joint Secretary

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