13K applicants of family ID scheme untraced in Faridabad
Bijendra Ahlawat
Tribune News Service
Faridabad, October 29
As many as 13,500 applicants of Parivaar Pehchan Patra (PPP) in the district are untraced. The district administration has launched a drive to verify the authenticity of such applicants. A total of over 5.69 lakh families have been issued PPP so far.
A senior official of the district administration said that a large number of applicants of the PPP scheme have not been found on the address provided by them. He said that it had necessitated further verification as wrong addresses have given rise to doubts over the correctness of the applications itself.
The details of the untraced applicants have come to light after the members of the Local Area Committee (LAC) set up for the purpose visited the addresses provided in the applications, it is learnt.
Claiming that while 205 educated youths have been hired on temporary basis to involve them in the PPP verification drive, Satbir Maan, ADC, Faridabad, said that teams of such youths known as ‘Saksham Yuva’ were being trained to carry out the work in a proper manner.
He said 335 youths against a monthly honorarium up to Rs 9,000 are proposed to be engaged for the drive, adding that a total of 1.8 lakh PPP applications have been found improper as these are unsigned and not updated. The applications would be processed further only after these are updated with signatures, he said.
“Launched in July 2019, the primary objective of PPP is to create authentic, verified and reliable data of all the families and keeps the basic data in a digital format,” said ADC Maan.
He said the eight digit family ID is linked to the birth, death and marriage records to ensure automatic updating of the data from time to time. The Family ID, he said, would be linked to existing schemes like scholarships, subsidies and pensions so as to ensure consistency and reliability and at the same time enabling automatic selection of beneficiaries. More than 90 per cent of the eligible families have already been covered under PPP, it is added.
