Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 29: Chief Secretary, B R Sharma today underscored the urgency to ramp up Aadhaar enrollment of citizens of the State.
Chairing the 1st meeting of the Unique Identification Implementation Committee (UIDIC) here, Chief Secretary emphasized on completing the essential Aadhaar enrollment as Aadhaar Card holders will be eligible for receiving food grains, Kerosene and LPG from ration depots and LPG distributors after December 31, 2015.
Chief Secretary asked the Census Department to augment districts lagging behind 100% Aadhaar enrollment target and provide these with the necessary number of machines to enable completion of Aadhaar enrollment before December 2015.
Chief Secretary also asked all Deputy Commissioners to mobilize people and proactively facilitate their Aadhaar enrolment. He said use of both Permanent Enrollment Centers (PECs) as well as Mobile Enrollment Centers should be made so that the target of 100% Aadhaar enrolment is achieved in the State.
Earlier, Secretary IT briefed the Chief Secretary about the status of Aadhaar enrollment in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the total Aadhaar penetration as on September 20 stood at 49% of the total population of the State, as per the Census 2011. He said 61 lakh citizens have been provided Aadhaar cards and the process of covering the remaining is being done. As per Census 2011, J&K has population of over 1.25 crore.
Issues related to Aadhaar enabled Bio-metric Attendance System (BAS), Jeevan Parman (Computer Generated Digital Life Certificate) for pensioners, and establishment of grievance cell pertaining to Aadhaar enrollments were also discussed in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary chaired the 10th meeting of the Board of Governors of Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGa) to review the progress of implementation of various e-governance initiatives in the State.
The Information Technology Department through its e-Governance agency (JaKeGa) is implementing various IT related projects.
The Board of Governance (BoG) reviewed the progress of IT projects including establishment of Common Service Centers (CSCs)/Khidmat Centers, State Data Center, State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG), e-Assembly, e-Prisons, e-Districts, Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), JK State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and other programs.
Secretary, IT briefed the meeting about the status of various IT projects in the State. He said that 1109 Common Service Centers also called as Khidmat centers have already been established and over 4200 more such centers are being established in coming three years covering all Gram-Panchayats. He said 1069 such Centers shall be established during 2015-16.
He said under ESDM 15000 students will be trained in Telecom, Electronics and IT sectors besides 1400 students are being trained under the scheme-IT for masses. Similarly, he said under the Specialized Training in e-Governance Program (STEP) as many as 150 middle level KAS officers have been nominated to undergo project management training programme through IMPA under capacity building scheme of DEITY, Government of India.
The BoG approved the proposal for rolling out e-District initiative. Under the e-District initiative, IT department has chosen 25 services across eight departments for service delivery to the citizens at their door steps. The implementation of the project will provide support to the district administration to enable content development of G2C (Government to Citizens) Services with Khidmat Centers as the primary front ends for service delivery to the citizens.
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