MUMBAI: In a bid to weed out frauds, the government has decided that all its employees should have the Aadhar Unique Identification Number (UID) to draw their salary. Maharashtra will be the first state in the country to implement the system.
The UID will have demographic and biometric information of an individual. The government, which has nearly 37 lakh staffers, hopes that the system will stop corruption among unscrupulous employees, who have been known for drawing salaries from various departments at the same time. On one occasion, a department continued to pay salary in the name of a deceased staffer.
Nearly 37 lakh employees are working in government or semi-government bodies across the state in Maharashtra. There have been instances when an employee has been found drawing salaries from various departments or the payment continue to happen even though the employee is dead resulting in loss to the exchequer.
Rajesh Agarwal, secretary of accounts and treasury, issued a GR on Monday, listing the steps to be taken by department heads and state employees to register themselves under the UID project. "Departments have been given their deadlines. The process will be conducted in phases, the first slot being slated for April 20 to June 30, and that will include all government workers," an official said. "Salary will not be paid to those who fail to get their UID numbers before the deadline." The subsequent phases will cover teaching and non-teaching staff of aided schools and colleges, zilla parishad, gram panchayat and social welfare staffers.
The employee will cease to draw a salary if he fails to get the UID number before the deadline expires for his/her department.
The official said, "This would be first ever application to be developed and put into use under the Aadhar UID scheme and all the modalities for the implementation has been worked out in consultation with UID authority of India."
With the UID card-which is supposed to bear the photo of an employee's iris, impression of his fingers and other basic details-the government can easily track a fraud. "There have been cases of the same person holding jobs in different departments by making minor changes to his name," an official said. For example if an name of the employee is Santosh Arvind Chavan at one place, he registers his names at Chavan Santosh Aor Chavan BA in some other place." "In another case, a staffer started worked in a private firm but put his 'dummy' in the government."
All these practices are done with the tacit approval of some higher-ups in the government department. Hence, it becomes difficult to identify such case.Once the UID system is in place, the employee will have to provide his Iris photograph of his/her eyes along with a impression of all fingers of both the hands. Along with the basis details, the state government employee will also have provide this employee ID card details along with the name of the department with which he is working.
The official said, "The entire process is full-proof and has been developed to weed out duplication. In the case of government employee, the salary will only be released after the identify of the employee is ascertained through authentication machine. "Maharashtra is the first state to implement this project.
At present, 30 lakh people across the state have enrolled for the UID project. Of them, nearly 5 lakh have already been issued the card. A total of 800 enrolment centers having 2,500 enrolment stations.
The UID will have demographic and biometric information of an individual. The government, which has nearly 37 lakh staffers, hopes that the system will stop corruption among unscrupulous employees, who have been known for drawing salaries from various departments at the same time. On one occasion, a department continued to pay salary in the name of a deceased staffer.
Nearly 37 lakh employees are working in government or semi-government bodies across the state in Maharashtra. There have been instances when an employee has been found drawing salaries from various departments or the payment continue to happen even though the employee is dead resulting in loss to the exchequer.
Rajesh Agarwal, secretary of accounts and treasury, issued a GR on Monday, listing the steps to be taken by department heads and state employees to register themselves under the UID project. "Departments have been given their deadlines. The process will be conducted in phases, the first slot being slated for April 20 to June 30, and that will include all government workers," an official said. "Salary will not be paid to those who fail to get their UID numbers before the deadline." The subsequent phases will cover teaching and non-teaching staff of aided schools and colleges, zilla parishad, gram panchayat and social welfare staffers.
The employee will cease to draw a salary if he fails to get the UID number before the deadline expires for his/her department.
The official said, "This would be first ever application to be developed and put into use under the Aadhar UID scheme and all the modalities for the implementation has been worked out in consultation with UID authority of India."
With the UID card-which is supposed to bear the photo of an employee's iris, impression of his fingers and other basic details-the government can easily track a fraud. "There have been cases of the same person holding jobs in different departments by making minor changes to his name," an official said. For example if an name of the employee is Santosh Arvind Chavan at one place, he registers his names at Chavan Santosh Aor Chavan BA in some other place." "In another case, a staffer started worked in a private firm but put his 'dummy' in the government."
All these practices are done with the tacit approval of some higher-ups in the government department. Hence, it becomes difficult to identify such case.Once the UID system is in place, the employee will have to provide his Iris photograph of his/her eyes along with a impression of all fingers of both the hands. Along with the basis details, the state government employee will also have provide this employee ID card details along with the name of the department with which he is working.
The official said, "The entire process is full-proof and has been developed to weed out duplication. In the case of government employee, the salary will only be released after the identify of the employee is ascertained through authentication machine. "Maharashtra is the first state to implement this project.
At present, 30 lakh people across the state have enrolled for the UID project. Of them, nearly 5 lakh have already been issued the card. A total of 800 enrolment centers having 2,500 enrolment stations.
