Family ID next big thing for robust delivery of schemes, services: Social Welfare Minister Asim Arun

Family ID a database of families with unique identification numbers will be the next big technologybased intervention in robust delivery of services and schemes to people in Uttar Pradesh after Aadhaar and direct benefit transfers DBT the states Social Welfare Minister Asim Arun saidFamily ID was launched in January this year on a pilot basis for which registration is voluntary According to official figures around 44000 people have enrolled themselves so far on the official website familyidupgovinFamily ID is a 12digit unique identification number carrying details of a family serving as a central repository of family attributes to automatically determine their eligibility for government schemes and extend benefits to the missing beneficiaries Arun saidThe database will be used by around oneandahalfdozen departments such as education social welfare and labour that dole out DBT he saidOne of the major initiatives of the Uttar Pradesh government is the Family ID which uses the ration card number for identification of a family We get details of a family either through a ration card or a family register They get an Aadhaar card which takes information from 17 departments and we get to know if a beneficiary has taken Kisan Samman fund or student scholarship among others Asim Arun told PTI in an interviewWe also get to know which families have not availed the benefits or have been left behind There are still many families which are not aware of the government benefits and miss those he addedScheme targeting would drastically improve with the Family ID in coming years the minister saidAlso Read UP Recent dip in temperature affects mango crops farmers seek compensationSo far DBT and Aadhaar have been two major technical interventions which have yielded very good results Now with the Family ID coming along we are hopeful that most of the inefficiencies that remain will get erased and we will have a very robust system of service delivery to the people on the ground the minister saidAsked if any similar models elsewhere inspired the Family ID initiative he said the Uttar Pradesh government studied Karnatakas Kutumba initiativeThe Kutumba initiative has been developed as an Integrated Social Information System SIIS consisting of a social registry integrated beneficiary management systems beneficiary registry a payment platform and a grievance redressal system according to its websiteThe project aims to achieve suo motu delivery of benefits and services by checking entitlement identifying eligible residents and thereafter sanctioningapproving the service or schemeAsked about concerns regarding data privacy and security the Uttar Pradesh minister said the government is extremely cautious about protecting peoples information and like the National Intelligence Grid NATGRID the Family ID would not aggregate any data on its serversData privacy and security are important for us We are not aggregating any data on our servers The 17 departments that access this data have API application programming interface accessThis is the example which NATGRID also follows for passports and other services NATGRID does not have any database of its own Same is the case with Family ID For data privacy we are extremely cautious that details like Aadhaar numbers are not published online Arun saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever