0 Special emphasis on Aadhaar saturation and transparent digital governance in high level review meeting, special campaign will be run in schools
Raipur. In Chhattisgarh, the state government has given strict instructions to speed up the work related to Aadhaar in order to reach the benefits of public welfare schemes to every eligible beneficiary in a transparent manner. A high-level review meeting was held today at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhavan under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Mr. Bikasheel regarding the progress of Unique Identification Authority of India and Aadhaar related works in the state. In the meeting, the Chief Secretary gave clear instructions that the Aadhaar biometric update of all eligible citizens, students and parents of children registered in Anganwadi should be completed with highest priority.

Aadhaar for students, now school door campaign
Chief Secretary asked school education department and related agencies to work in coordination with each other while reviewing Aadhaar registration and biometric update of school children. He said that it is essential to have Aadhaar for students to get the benefits of scholarships and other educational schemes without any hindrance. To achieve this goal, a special campaign called Student Ke Aadhaar, Ab Vidyalaya Ke Dwar will be launched. Along with this, special attention will be given to mandatory biometric updating based on the age of children. New Aadhaar Enrollment of children aged 0 to 5 years, Mandatory biometric updating on completion of 5 and 15 years of age.
With special focus on health and remote areas,
the Health Department has been instructed that the birth certificate of children born in hospitals should be compulsorily provided before they are discharged from the hospital.
Special Backward Tribes
Special camps will be organized through Atal Seva Kendras in remote tribal settlements and Gram Panchayats to ensure 100 percent Aadhaar enrollment of particularly vulnerable tribal groups of the state. The status of verification of Aadhaar data of new enrollments above 18 years of age and senior citizens above 100 years of age on the state verification portal was also reviewed.
Instructions to District Collectors for Monitoring
Chief Secretary Mr. Bikasheel has directed the Collectors of all districts to regularly monitor pending Aadhaar enrollment and biometric update cases in their respective districts. Accessibility of Aadhaar service centers in remote and rural areas should be increased so that no citizen is inconvenienced.
Transparent digital governance and integration of schemes
At the end of the meeting, there was a discussion on effectively linking the utility of Aadhaar with education, health services, direct benefit transfer and other public welfare schemes. The Chief Secretary said that the use of Aadhaar verification in the schemes will make the process transparent and the real needy will get quick benefits of government assistance. In the meeting, Chief Secretary of Urban Administration Department Mr. Sonmani Bora, Chief Secretary of Home Department Mrs. Niharika Barik, Chief Secretary of Women and Child Development Department Mrs. Shahla Nigar, Finance Secretary Dr. Dr. Rohit Yadav, School Education Secretary. Kamalpreet Singh, Health Secretary Shri Amit Kataria along with many senior officers of various departments were present.