A team of World Bank and National Identification Authority of Tanzania (NIAT) studied the Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AEPS) in Guntupalli, Gollapudi, Nunna, Pathapadu and Rayanapadu villages in Vijayawada Rural Mandal on Friday as part of their two-day tour.
NIAT Director (ICT) Alphonce Malibiche said the tour was intended to obtain a first-hand account of the best practices followed in the AEPS and possibly replicate it for achieving the desired results in the implementation of Tanzania’s poverty alleviation programme Social Action Fund. The visitors were apprised of AEPS adopted for paying wages under the MGNREGS at Pathapadu village. DRDA Project Director B. Chandrasekhar Raju said the workers were not charged anything for the service rendered to them and that Rs.2,000 could be drawn at a time from micro-ATMs.
DWMA Project Director Madhavi Latha said the work done and attendance of each worker was linked up with AadhaAr number and posted online and payments routed through it to the micro-ATMs.
Inter-operability
MPDO Y. Brahmaiah said inter-operability of the scheme was its uniqueness. The WB and Tanzanian delegates later studied the Aadhar-enabled pension payment system at Nunna.
The DRDA PD said a sum of Rs.36 crore was paid every month to 3.50 lakh pensioners through the biometric system. The e-Point-of-Sale (e-POS) network through which ration is distributed and payments made to the dealers under the Public Distribution System0 was the next topic of study for the visitors.
