Aadhaar offers a unique opportunity for the Government to fund several social welfare schemes and streamline their welfare delivery mechanism. It also ensures transparency and good governance.
Aadhaar authentication deduplicates data, which helps generate substantial savings for the government exchequer. It also provides the Government with accurate data on beneficiaries and helps coordinate and optimize various schemes. All these activities lead to:
Curbing leakages through targeted delivery
Confirmation of beneficiaries is crucial before the service delivery. This stands to the benefit of the Government because of UIDAI’s authentication services. This helps reduce leakages and ensures that services are delivered to the intended beneficiaries only, including subsidized food and kerosene delivery to Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries, etc.
Improving efficiency and efficacy
The Aadhaar platform provides accurate and transparent information about the service delivery mechanism that helps the Government improve disbursement systems and utilize scarce development funds more effectively and efficiently including better utilization of human resources.
The Aadhaar system also provides a powerful source for identity verification across the country. It eliminates the hassle of repeatedly providing supporting identity documents each time. In addition, the Aadhaar system has enabled mobility for millions of people who migrate from one part of the country to another with its easy updation process.
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