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Odisha to come up with social registry for all welfare programmes

  • 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.
  • A stakeholders’ consultation to finalise this social protection delivery platform is scheduled be held here on November 5.
  • The concept paper says the State should have data across schemes like correct and authenticated family details, single source of truth for all departments, metadata model, data standardization and normalization.
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  • The social registry is expected to identify the correct target beneficiary and weed out ghost and ineligible beneficiaries.
  • Allegations of ghost beneficiaries gobbling up benefits keep coming at regular interval.

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