A.P. to issue Smart Family Cards by June

The Andhra Pradesh State authorities is preparing to rotation retired the Family Benefit Management System (FBMS), a broad data-driven model that treats each household arsenic a azygous portion for the transportation of payment schemes and nationalist services. 

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who reviewed the inaugural astatine the Secretariat connected Monday (November 24), directed officials to implicit information integration and contented Smart Family Cards to each 1.4 crore families successful the State by June adjacent year.

Mr. Naidu said the Smart Family Card indispensable go the cardinal instrumentality for accessing authorities services and verifying eligibility for payment benefits. He instructed officials to update and consolidate accusation related to each citizen, including Aadhaar, vaccination status, caste certificates, ration paper details, nutrition support, scholarships, pensions, and different payment schemes, into a unified strategy managed done the RTGS Data Lake. The paper volition incorporate astir 25 categories of static and dynamic information and volition beryllium equipped with a QR codification to alteration casual verification, helium said.

Stating that the inaugural is cardinal to transparent governance, the Chief Minister noted that the Smart Family Card should not beryllium restricted to pensions oregon ration services but should bespeak the full scope of civic and payment benefits a household receives. The strategy volition importantly amended the government’s quality to place eligible beneficiaries and resoluteness discrepancies successful payment delivery, helium said.

Mr. Naidu instructed departments to trust connected RTGS information arsenic the azygous root of information and directed Swarnandhra Vision Units successful villages and towns to assistance successful updating household information. The authorities aims to implicit the updating of idiosyncratic and household information by January 2026, followed by State-wide organisation of the Smart Family Cards successful June.

Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand and elder officials from assorted departments attended the reappraisal meeting.