*No salary, wages without enrollment
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 10: In order to ensure punctuality and promote transparency and efficiency in its offices and establishments, Government has decided to switch over to the Aadhaar Based Biometric System on or before March 31, 2016 and a detailed directions have been issued to all the concerned for strict compliance.
According to the directions issued by the General Administration Department, no salary or wages would be drawn in favour of the Government employees of any category for the month of March 2016 onwards unless they have enrolled themselves in the Aadhaar Based Biometric System. This condition also applies to the PSU employees, contractual, consolidated and casual workers drawing wages in any form from the public exchequer.
The DDOs have been directed to ensure enrolment in the system before March 31 and furnish a certificate for the same along with salary/wage bill presented in the Treasury without which the Treasury Officers will not entertain any salary/wage bill.
Stating that from April 1, 2016 onwards the marking of attendance in the system would be compulsory for all categories of employees and wage earners, the GAD said, “it would be only after scrutiny of monthly attendance, the DDOs would prepare salary/wage bill and a certificate in this regard would be accordingly furnished along with the bill to the Treasuries concerned”.
Even the pensioners have also been asked to enroll themselves by obtaining Aadhaar number by March 31 as this would help them to digitally identify themselves in future at the nearest Common Service Centre/ Khidmat Centre or any other place having the system installed. They would not be required to physically present themselves before the prescribed authorities to prove that they are alive. “This initiative is being undertaken as a part of Jeevan Parnam Scheme”, the GAD said.
It has also been decided that all persons drawing benefits like old aged pension, widow pension, student scholarship, stipend, honorarium, wages under MGNREGA or any other similar cash benefit from the Government would need to enroll themselves in Aadhaar based Biometric System initially and mark their continued eligibility periodically as decided by the concerned department by presenting and marking before the concerned authority.
“The concerned departmental officers will be responsible for getting enrolled all such beneficiaries in the system for their identification without which they would not draw any benefit after April 1, 2016”, the GAD said.
About the infrastructure and necessary support, the GAD said, “the Administrative Secretaries/ HoDs and DDOs of various departments/corporations shall ensure installations of desktop based Aadhaar Based Biometic Attendance System/ Machines in their respective offices at an earliest and Information Technology Department and NIC Centres in each district have been directed to provide necessary guidance and support for implementation”.
All Administrative Secretaries and HoDs within their departments and Deputy Commissioners in their respective jurisdictions would be responsible for compliance of the instructions, the GAD further said.
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