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No. Puducherry Wednesday 23rd March 2022
(2 Chaitra 1944)
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
PLANNING AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
[G.O. Ms. No. 05/PRD/DD(UID)/2022/1009,
Puducherry, dated 18th March 2022]
ORDER
Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 (as amended) permits the use
of Aadhaar for establishing the identity of an individual for receipt of a subsidy, benefit or service for which the expenditure is incurred from or the receipt therefrom forms part of, the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of State. The section requires that such individual undergoes authentication, or furnishes proof of possession
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of Aadhaar Number or in the case of an individual to whom no Aadhaar
Number has been assigned, such individual makes an application for
enrollment, provided that if, an Aadhaar Number is not assigned to an
individual, the individual shall be offered alternate and viable means of
identification for delivery of the subsidy, benefit or service. This would
simplify the Government delivery, ensure efficiency and bring in requisite
transparency in beneficiaries getting their entitlements directly in
a convenient and seamless manner. The need for a beneficiary to produce
multiple documents to prove one's identity would also be obviated.
2. Presently, the Departments are disbursing the benefits, via DBT
mode, directly to the respective Bank Accounts of the beneficiaries
through Aadhaar Payment Bridge. However, the data set used by
Departments is often not synchronized, creating possibilities of
ineligible, multiple and fraudulent claims. To obviate such instances of
unscrupulous claims, a Unified Data Hub (UDH) is being created in the
Union territory of Puducherry and to facilitate its functioning, the
available beneficiaries and Government employee data, along with their
Aadhaar details and demographic information, is required to be shared
by various Departments implementing welfare Schemes with the Nodal
Department namely, the Planning and Research Department. The latter
shall act as the custodian of all the data for the Union territory of
Puducherry. Further, the amendment in the data would need to be
periodically reported and at least once a month to the Planning and
Research Department, which shall create and maintain the UDH, with
the support of NIC, Puducherry.
3. Further, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI),
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi vide its
Office Memorandum, dated 10-12-2021 has clarified that "to support
efficient and effective implementation/formulation of Social Welfare
Schemes under section 7 of the Aadhaar Act and identification of
beneficiaries thereto, the Central/State Government Ministries/
Departments may share partially masked Aadhaar (i.e., last 4 digits
visible e.g. xxxx xxxx 1234) along with demographic information only
(name, date of birth, gender, residential address as per Aadhaar),
amongst themselves subject to compliance with the provisions related 81
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to safety, security, and confidentiality". In view of the said clarification
of the UIDAI, New Delhi, the Nodal Department, namely, Planning and Research Department, Puducherry, shall accordingly share the
information with various Welfare Departments for the purpose of implementing Welfare Schemes every month/every new release of benefits. Only such data shall be treated by the Departments as the authentic source for implementing a Welfare Scheme. The Planning and Research Department would frame detailed modalities in this regard.
4. Accordingly, Hon'ble Lieutenant-Governor for the Union
territory of Puducherry, is hereby pleased to direct the Departments/ Societies/Agencies/PSUs of the Government of Puducherry to share the Beneficiaries'/Government employee's data with the Planning and Research Department, which shall further share the requisite details, including partially masked Aadhaar, with Departments to disburse subsidies/benefits and extend other associated services. This shall be
subject to strict compliance with the provisions related to safety, security, and confidentiality of data in accordance with the Aadhaar (Targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benefits, and services) Act, 2016.
PRASHANT GOYAL, Principal Secretary to Government (Planning).
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