KOZHIKODE, August 13, 2016
The district administration is planning to conduct a door-to-door Aadhaar enrolment drive with a mission to bring all bedridden and physically challenged persons under the Aadhaar network. To begin with, a preliminary survey will be carried out in all the grama panchayats in the district to identify the total number of beneficiaries.
Assistant Collector R. Imbasekharan will coordinate the project as per the instructions issued by the Union and the State governments. The Assistant Collector has already held a review meeting with the government officers in-charge of the implementation of the project.
Along with the families of the bedridden persons, their neighbours are also encouraged to pass the service request through the ward member or the corporation councillor to the local body concerned within August 20. The local bodies will have to submit the collected details to the district administration within August 25 to make the necessary arrangements.
Officials confirm that all bedridden persons will be provided service on their doorstep to complete the enrolment formalities with the support of the local Akshaya centres. The mission is to cover all such citizens within a month and ensure them all the eligible benefits from the Union and the State governments, they add.
The project coordinators make it clear that the Aadhaar enrolment is a basic requisite to benefit from various government grants and welfare pension schemes. As most of such funds are now directly credited to the bank account of the beneficiaries, the linkage of such accounts with Aadhaar number is an unavoidable requirement, they say.