New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The ‘Poshan Tracker’ has achieved nationwide coverage across all 28 States and 8 Union Territories, registering over 8.93 crore beneficiaries (till May), the government said on Wednesday.Mobile‑based ‘Poshan Tracker’ now supports dynamic monitoring of the Supplementary Nutrition Programme under Anganwadi Services and, as of May, recorded over 5.5 crore beneficiaries having received supplementary nutrition for at least 15 days while 5.17 crore received it for at…
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New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has completed the process of migrating its entire database of member records to the new centralised national database, as part of the CITES Project (Centralised IT Enabled Services) initiative, to modernise the organisation’s service delivery to its members through automation and rule-based processing, it was announced on Wednesday.The project is designed to enhance convenience for members, improve EPFO operational effi…
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) India’s fintech sector is shifting focus from growth to trust, governance and resilience as nearly 59 per cent of firms rank reputation and brand risk as a high‑severity concern or the highest risk facing them, a report said on Tuesday.The report from Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) and Grant Thornton Bharat said reputation risk was followed by interoperability and infrastructure risk at 51 per cent.The report noted that customer trust can be affe…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Two persons were arrested as the Delhi Police Special Cell’s Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) busted an inter-state cyber fraud racket allegedly involved in preparing and selling forged government identity documents through an online platform. The accused were operating the website bkprint.in, which allegedly enabled users to generate fake Aadhaar cards, voter identity cards, PAN-related documents, residence certificates, caste certificates, birth an…
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has restored its upgraded Unified Member Portal after scheduled maintenance, but moved Universal Account Number services to the government’s UMANG app.PF subscribers can no longer activate their Universal Account Number (UAN) or generate a new UAN through the EPFO website and it can be done through the UMANG app, the report from NDTV Profit said.In order to avail the service, users will have to complete Aadhaar-based Face Au…
Bengaluru, July 3 (IANS) The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) on Friday clarified that providing beneficiary category (caste) details during the ongoing Gruha Jyoti free power scheme beneficiary re-verification drive is entirely optional and not mandatory. The clarification comes following queries raised on media and social media platforms regarding the collection of caste-related information from beneficiaries.BESCOM said its staff and meter readers have been visiting residential h…
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) India’s unified payments interface (UPI) now accounts for nearly 49 per cent of the world’s real-time payment transaction volume, making it the largest real-time payment system globally, the government said on Wednesday.The achievement comes as the Digital India programme completes 11 years since its launch on July 1, 2015. According to the government, the initiative has transformed the country’s digital public infrastructure, enabling faster payments, improving public s…
Jaipur, July 1 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma inaugurated the 29th National e-Governance Conference at the Rajasthan International Centre (RIC) on Wednesday, officials said. Addressing the inaugural session, the Chief Minister said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of leveraging technology for good governance since 2014 has transformed public service delivery across the country.He noted that the Jan-Dhan, Aadhaar, and Mobile (JAM) trinity has eliminated the role of mi…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) Around six lakh beneficiaries of the 100-day job scheme from South 24 Parganas under the former Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal will not be a part of the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Scheme because their e-KYC is pending.Insiders from the state secretariat of Nabanna explained that Aadhaar-based filtering and filling up of e-KYC is…
Bengaluru, June 30 (IANS) Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Tuesday launched Karnataka’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by filling out his own Enumeration Form at his Sadashivanagar residence and urged all eligible voters to complete the exercise to safeguard their voting rights. He underlined that voter registration is key to accessing government benefits.The Chief Minister received the Enumeration Form from election officials and submitted the completed form as the statewi…