With reference to Haryana government’s Parivar Pehchan Patra scheme which aims to provide unique IDs, consider the following statements: With Unique IDs, beneficiaries do not have to register for a new scheme each time and can be automatically included or excluded from the beneficiary list. Only the central government can provide unique ID to people. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Q. With reference to Haryana government’s Parivar Pehchan Patra scheme which aims to provide unique IDs, consider the following statements:
1. With Unique IDs, beneficiaries do not have to register for a new scheme each time and can be automatically included or excluded from the beneficiary list.
2. Only the central government can provide unique ID to people.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

[A] 1 only

[B] 2 only

[C] Both 1 and 2

[D] Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: A

Notes:

Statement 1 is correct: Unique IDs help to link data to the scheme so that beneficiaries do not have to register for a new scheme each time and can be automatically included or excluded from the beneficiay list.

Statement 2 is incorrect: There is no restriction on state government to provide Unique IDs. For instance,

Haryana government’s Parivar Pehchan Patra scheme will accord a unique eight-digit ID to each family and link all state government schemes on subsidy, pension and insurance.

Rajasthan government’s Bhamashah scheme and Madhya Pradesh’s Samagra ID system also provide unique IDs to people.

Source: From PAN to Aadhaar, the universe of unique IDs is expanding in India

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