UIDAI to charge Rs 1 for ration card e-KYC

The decision to conduct e-KYC for all the ration card holder of Jharkhand is expected to cost in the tune of Rs 2.5 crore to the Government.

The UIDAI responding to the proposal of the Department of Food and Civil Supplied has quoted the figure for the purpose.

Secretary with the Department Amitabh Kausal confirmed this, besides talking about several other measures that have been mulled and would be implemented in near future in order to weed out the fraud beneficiaries.

“We are going for electronic-KYC for all the 57,000 card holders in the State like it is being done for getting mobile SIM. This would be done at Pragya Kendras or also with our machines with the dealers. IT Department has suggested the two options to us for rolling out the mechanism,” said the Secretary.