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The medication volition look to maximise Aadhaar-enabled governance and national services, particularly with the UIDAI expected to acceptable up a dedicated Aadhaar work centre successful Puducherry shortly.
A cross-section of apical officials from authorities who attended a high-level store connected ‘Deriving Maximum Impact Out of Aadhaar’ hosted by the UIDAI Regional Office, Bengaluru, successful coordination with the State Planning and Research Department, resolved to beforehand Aadhaar-driven governance and grow high-quality, resident-centric integer work transportation crossed the Union Territory, a property enactment said.
The store focused connected processing a broad roadmap for strengthening Aadhaar usage crossed the Union Territory and enhancing coordination betwixt each departments progressive successful Aadhaar implementation and work delivery.
Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan, who was the main guest, announced that the UIDAI would found its archetypal dedicated Aadhaar Seva Kendra successful Puducherry by March 2026. This would people a large measurement toward strengthening integer nationalist infrastructure and ensuring amended nonmigratory work delivery.
The Chief Secretary highlighted Puducherry’s exceptional advancement successful Aadhaar implementation, noting that the Union Territory has generated 15.44 lakh Aadhaar numbers against the projected 2025 colonisation of 14.05 lakh, achieving an awesome 109.85% coverage.
Aadhaar seeding stands astatine a notable 97%, enabling close beneficiary recognition crossed assorted payment schemes. The Union Territory has onboarded 137 schemes — 60 Centrally-Sponsored and 77 State schemes — connected the Bharat Portal. In fiscal twelvemonth 2024–25, Puducherry disbursed ₹1,022.21 crore done Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), demonstrating a beardown committedness to transparency and simplification of leakages, Mr. Chauhan said.
Bhuvnesh Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, UIDAI, Government of India, successful his keynote address, commended Puducherry for maintaining precocious standards of Aadhaar governance. He peculiarly appreciated the beardown information extortion and operational subject of Puducherry. The authoritative besides emphasised the offline verification utilizing Aadhaar App, deactivation of Aadhaar of deceased, mandatory biometric updates, verification done the State portal for caller Aadhaar registrants and highlighted the value of Aadhaar authentication including look authentication.
The programme was attended by each Secretaries to government, District Collector, Deputy Directors General (UIDAI), Additional Secretary, DBT, New Delhi, the Directors (UIDAI), heads of departments, and elder officers of the Puducherry Administration.
The lawsuit besides brought unneurotic a wide scope of Aadhaar ecosystem partners, including Registrars, Authentication and e-KYC User Agencies (AUA/KUA), and representatives from assorted departments of the territorial administration.
Experts and elder officials from Puducherry, neighbouring States, UIDAI headquarters, the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Mission, and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) presented their initiatives and shared champion practices successful Aadhaar governance. During the workshop, 3 ace elder citizens aged implicit 100 years were felicitated, the property enactment said.
