Telangana govt issues fine print of eligibility for Gruha Jyothy; Aadhar authentication must

HYDERABAD: Telangana Government has come up with finer details of the eligibility for people to avail themselves of the Gruha Jyothy scheme - free electricity for households up to 200 units of electricity consumption.

The implementing agencies - TSDISCOMs — will execute and facilitate the scheme.

Accordingly, the Telangana Government issued a GO mentioning the guidelines.

Please find the conditions here. Aadhar is a mandatory thing.

The process of explained here.

(1) An individual desirous of availing the benefit under the scheme shall hereby be required to furnish proof of possession of the Aadhaar number or undergo Aadhaar authentication.

(2) Any individual desirous of availing the benefit under the Scheme, who does not possess the Aadhaar number or, as has not yet enrolled for Aadhaar, shall be required to make application for Aadhaar enrolment before registering for the scheme provided that he is entitled to obtain aadhaar as per section 3 of the said act, at any Aadhaar enrolment centre (list available at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) website to get enrolled for Aadhaar.

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(3) As per Regulation 12 of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016, the Department through its Implementing Agency, is required to offer Aadhaar enrolment facilities for the beneficiaries who are not yet enrolled for Aadhaar and in case there is no Aadhaar enrolment centre located in the respective Block or Taluka or Tehsil, the Department through its Implementing Agency shall provide Aadhaar enrolment facilities at convenient locations in coordination with the existing Registrars of UIDAl or by becoming a UIDAl Registrar themselves;

Provided that till the time Aadhaar is assigned to the individual, benefits under the scheme shall be given to such individual, subject to the production of the following documents namely:-

(a) if he/she has enrolled, his/her Aadhaar Enrolment Identification Slip and any

(b) any one of the following documents, namely.

(i) Bank or Post office passbook with photo;

or ii) Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card;

or (ii) Passport; or (iv) Ration Card; or

(v) Voter Identity Card;

or (vi) MGNREGA card,

or (vii) Kisan Photo passbook,

or

(viii) Driving license issued by the Licensing Authority under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (S9 of 19BB);

or

(ix) certificate of identity having photo of such person issued by a Gazetted Officer or a Tehsildar on an official letter head;

or

(x) any other document as specified by the Department

Provided further that the above documents may be checked by an

officer specifically designated by the Department for that purpose.

In order to provide benefits to the beneficiaries under the Scheme conveniently, the Department through its Implementing Agency shall make all the required arrangements to ensure that wide publicity through media shall be given to the beneficiaries to make them aware of the requirement of Aadhaar under the Scheme.

7. In all cases, where Aadhaar authentication fails due to poor biometrics of the beneficiaries or due to any other reason, the following remedial mechanisms shall be adopted, namely:-

(a) in case of poor fingerprint quality, iris scan or face authentication facility shall be adopted for authentication, thereby the Department through its Implementing Agency shall make provisions for iris scanners or face authentication along with finger-print authentication for delivery of benefits in seamless manner;

(b) in case the biometric authentication through fingerprints or iris scan or face authentication is not successful, wherever feasible and admissible authentication by Aadhaar one Time password or Time_based oneTime Password with limited time validity, as the case may be, shall be offered;

(c) in all other cases where biometric or Aadhaar one Time password or Time_ based one-Time password authentication is not possible, benefits under the Scheme may be given on the basis of physical Aadhaar letter whose authenticity can be verified through the quick Response (QR) code printed on the Aadhaar letter and the necessary arrangement of QR code reader shall be provided at the convenient relocations by the Department through its Implementing Agency.

8. In addition to the above for the purpose of ensuring that no bona fide beneficiary under the Scheme is deprived of his/her due benefits, under the said scheme, the Department in the State Government shall follow the instructions issued from time to time by the Government of India through its implementing agency.

This notification shall come into effect on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.