NOTIFICATION FOR REQUIREMENT OF AADHAR AUTHENTICATION OF BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE SCHEME OF KCR KIT UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE AADHAR ACT, 2016.

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THE TELANGANA GAZETTE

PART - I EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 250-A ] HYDERABAD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022.

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

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HEALTH, MEDICAL AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT

(H)

NOTIFICATION FOR REQUIREMENT OF AADHAR AUTHENTICATION OF BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE SCHEME OF KCR KIT UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE AADHAR ACT, 2016.

[G.O.Ms.No.145, Health, Medical & Family Welfare (H), 16th November, 2022.]

Where, 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;

2. And whereas, the Medical Health & Family Welfare Department (hereinafter referred to as the Department), is administering the KCR KIT (hereinafter referred to as the Scheme) to increase the institutional deliveries and to reduce the Maternal Mortality and Infant Mortality by providing cash benefit of Rs. 12000 (Male)/ Rs. 13000 (Female) and a kind component immediately after delivery availing antenatal and postnatal services from the Government health care facility , which is being implemented through the Commissioner Health and Family Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the Implementing Agency(ies);

3. And whereas, under the Scheme, a cash component of Rs. 12,000 for male child and Rs. 13,000 for female child is paid to the woman in four installments starting from 2nd ANC to full immunization when the child is 9 months old. Kind component will be handed over to the mother immediately after the delivery and the antenatal, postnatal sendees from Government health care facility (hereinafter referred to as the benefit) is given to the Pregnant Women/Mother (hereinafter referred to as the beneficiaries), by the Implementing Agency as per the extant Scheme guidelines;

4. And whereas, the aforesaid Scheme involves recurring expenditure incurred from the Consolidated Fund of Telangana State;

5. 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 Telangana hereby notifies the following, namely:-

(ii) 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 entitlted to obtain before Aadhaar as per Section 3 of the Said Act, and such individuals shall visit any Aadhaar enroloment Center (list Available at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) website www.udai.gov.in) to get enrolled for Aadhaar.

(iii) 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:

6. 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 Tahsildar on an official letter head; or

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

7. Provided further that the above documents may be checked by an officer specifically designated by the Department for that purpose.

8. 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.

9. In all cases, where Aadhaar authentication fails due to poor biometrics of the beneficiaries 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 (QR) 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.

10. In addition to the above, in order to ensure that no bona fide beneficiary under the 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 19th December 2017.

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