The process of Aadhaar seeding in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) database is expected to be completed by August 31.
To ensure greater speed, transparency and accuracy in transfer of funds to the workers bank account, Salem and Namakkal is one of the 300 districts in the country where Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system is implemented.
However, Aadhaar numbers are yet to be seeded in both the districts that help to eliminate duplicate and bogus records of workers. Hence, the MGNREGA Division of the Ministry of Rural Development has asked the officials to complete the seeding before August 31.
All functionaries at the block level and panchayat level are asked to visit the houses of the active workers and verify whether they have enrolled in Aadhaar and received the number.
If the worker has migrated permanently or they have expired, their records need to be deleted, officials said. Also, after the field verification, data needs to be updated in the portal so that accurate details about workers are available, they added.
Officials said that though it is not mandatory to enrol Aadhaar number, transfer of funds would be difficult, if errors are found in account number, name of bank or branch. Hence, to overcome these problems and ensure the wages reach the right beneficiary, seeding of Aadhaar number is done.
