Amitabh Kant: Aadhaar helped govt save over Rs 2 lakh crore

Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant Wednesday stated that Aadhaar has turn into the “bedrock” for the federal government’s welfare schemes and has saved over Rs 2 lakh crore to the federal government by “eliminating fake and duplicate identities”. He additionally known as Aadhaar one of many “most successful” biometric primarily based identification packages on the earth, which has prompted deliberations and discussions with worldwide multilateral companies, just like the World Bank and United Nations, to discover how the Aadhar structure could also be adopted in different nations.

“It is remarkable how  315 Central Schemes and 500 state schemes are leveraging Aadhaar to ensure effective delivery of services…Aadhaar has now become the bedrock for government welfare schemes, ensuring faster benefit transfers without any interruption or intermediaries, saving Rs 2.22 lakh crore rupees to the government by eliminating fake and duplicate identities,” Kant stated at a workshop on ‘Recent Initiatives for Simplifying Aadhaar usage’.

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Kant added that Aadhaar’s use case goes a lot past welfare supply because it has additionally laid “strong foundational” work for Digital India by enhancing monetary inclusion and “disrupting” the funds panorama within the nation. “Aadhaar has set an example globally of how the digitisation of public infrastructure can play an enormous role in inclusive development. We are not surprised that many countries are looking to replicate the Aadhaar system to digitise their public infrastructure…every household now has access to formal banking services along with a platform for availing low value credit, insurance and pension schemes.,” he added.

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Aadhaar, he stated, has significantly performed a key position in “financially empowering women”. “Earlier, the ration card, usually issued in the name of the male head, was a common identification document that was used by the whole family. However, individual family members, especially, women had no individual ID card that they could use independently. Now the Aadhaar card has enabled women to directly receive benefits from the government welfare schemes by opening a personal bank account through Jan Dhan accounts linked with Aadhaar…while Aadhaar has been a catalyst for digital innovation in the country, the central principle is inclusion — providing access to all, irrespective of their income status, gender and educational gap,” he added.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had withdrawn an advisory issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the Aadhaar company, which cautioned individuals to not share a photocopy of the doc with entities similar to resorts and cinema halls owing to the opportunity of “misuse”. According to the Ministry, the assertion was withdrawn as a result of it may very well be “misinterpreted”.