Aadhaar link for 93 per cent students

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 19

To bring more transparency in the disbursal of various incentives, including scholarships, to the deserving students, the state government has linked the data of nearly 93 per cent secondary students with their Aadhaar cards.

The data of 4.23 lakh out of 4.56 lakh students from Class IX to XII has been linked with their Aadhaar cards. The Aadhaar linkage of the students would go a long way in bringing transparency in the disbursal of various incentives, including scholarships, to the deserving students and eliminate undeserving claimants, said official sources.

Bhiwani (35,326), Mahendragarh (17,479), Mewat (8,464), Sirsa (30,513) and Sonepat (26,214) are the districts that have achieved 100 per cent Aadhaar enrolment.

Faridabad district seems to be the worst performer with just 13,996 students out of 19,584 being covered under the scheme. Panchkula is also not far behind with only 7,902 of the 13,244 students enrolled under it.

As many as 35,084 out of 36,709 students in Hisar districts have been Aadhaar-linked, while the figure for Ambala is 24,011 out of the total 26,197 students.