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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

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Published by The Director, Government Press, Puducherry.

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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