To create a ‘single source’ of authenticated family details for all welfare programmes, the Odisha government has proposed to come up with a Social Registry.
The state aims for better beneficiary identification by accessing the socio-economic data of citizen to strategise new scheme and target beneficiary.
The registry is expected to identify target beneficiaries and weed out ghost and ineligible beneficiaries.
The move assumes significance as 3.41 lakh fake beneficiaries were provided ₹170 crore recently under the State’s flagship ‘KALIA’ scheme for farmers.