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Jharkhand BPL families to get incentives for Aadhaar The Government of Jharkhand has decided to give incentives to families living below the poverty line (BPL) to get the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) project rolling. A token amount of `100 will be given as a financial incentive to BPL families to get each of their members enrolled for Aadhaar. Further, the state UIDAI is also said to be considering the possibility of giving incentives to introducers who would aid in the identification of BPL families and the illiterate. The incentives will
be credited directly in the bank accounts of Aadhaar card holders. UIDAI will be issuing the Aadhaar cards in five districts of Jharkhand—Ranchi, Hazaribag, Lohardaga, Dhanbad and Deoghar—where the project has been launched initially. The rural development department, registrar department for the project, has planned to offer Aadhaar cards to about 38 lakh Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers and BPL families in the first phase. The
plan is to make payments of wages to MGNREGA workers through Aadhaar numbers. Jharkhand is
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Goa dept to offer e-tracking for all land record details
The Directorate of Settlement and Land Records (DSLR) in Goa is planning a Web-based system where all survey numbers of land in Goa and their details will be visible on the Internet for viewers. The facility will allow anyone, anywhere in the world to log on to the Website and access the land
records in Goa. This would be especially beneficial to non-resident Goans who can track any parcel of land of interest to them and even print the records through a payment gateway. In particular, nonresident Goans who own properties in Goa, will be the immediate beneficiaries. In case of any change in the details of their property such as ownership, they can track the changes immediately because of the computerisation of the land records
in Goa and the online updating of records. DSLR had recently bagging the national level ‘Land Records Information System’ award. Goa bagged the award among 140 other entries because of the unique features of the system such as the integrated land records which are a combination of text and graphic data. Another unique feature of the system is that it instantly updates the records when land acquisition takes place.
one of the few states where issuance of cards began soon after the formal countrywide launch of the project.
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Haryana to e-track expecting mothers’ health As part of a pilot project in the rural areas of Kurukshetra, Kiathal and Rohtak districts of Haryana, children up to the age of five and expecting women are being issued a 16-digit unique identification number to keep track of their health. The pilot has been taken under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and will gradually be extended to the entire state. Initially, the unique identification number will
be used for keeping track of ante-natal and post-natal vaccination and immunisation schedules. As of now, immunisation schedule of pregnant women and children and other health related-data of every village are maintained manually in registers. The modalities of the project are reportedly being worked out for the state of Punjab too.
Haryana SIC to launch SMS service for case status queries The State Information Commission (SIC) of Haryana, in association with Hyderabad-based Centre for Good Governance will be implementing an SMSbased system to provide status of RTI cases filed
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with SIC. Upon completion of the project, citizens will be able to instantly get replies to queries like status of appeals, complaints, decision and the date of hearing for their respective cases. The required train-
ing has reportedly been imparted to the SIC staff on the use of the software. The Commission will be issuing a set of numbers on which people would be sending their queries. The information commission in Andhra Pradesh
already has this SMS-based service in place for similar queries. SIC in Haryana will be the second such body to provide the service to appellants. SIC Haryana is also in the process of revamping its Website so that appeals are filed online as well.