Question : Issuance of Certificate

(a) whether it is a fact that the ambitious e-district project for issuing certificates like income, caste and marriage certificate is linked with Aadhaar number;

(b) if so, whether the Aadhaar number is required at the login stage to establish the user''s identity;

(c) if so, whether the Government is considering an alternative unique identity for issuing certificates like income and caste;

(d) if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the steps taken by the Government to simplify the procedural requirement for issuing certificates online?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
(SHRI HARIBHAI PARATHIBHAI CHAUDHARY)

(a): The nodal department for e-District project is Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DietY). As per the information furnished by DietY, the e-District MMP has a provision for linking the Aadhaar base authentication process of for issuance for any type of certificate. The States/UTs implementing the e-District project are encouraged to authenticate the users based on the user’s Aadhaar umbers, it is a voluntary feature.

(b): it varies from State to State and depends upon the State/UT as to how they have implemented the e-District application and Whether they have used Aadhaar for establishing the user authentication.

(c): No, Madam. However e-Pramaan is a National e-Authentication service offerd by DeitY, this is based on the Aadhaar for credential verification.
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(d): e-Pramaan provides a simple, convenient and secure way for the users to access government services via internet/mobile as well as for the government to assess the authenticity of the users. e-Pramaan builds up confidence and trust in online transactions and encourages the use of the e-service as a channel for service delivery. Major Components of e-Pramaan includes:-
• Identity Management (including Credential Registration)
• e-Authentication (including Step-up Authentication)
• Single Sign-on
• Aadhaar based credential verification

(e): Extensive Business Process Reengineering is being done at the State and UT level for conversion of the manual process to electronic form and at Government of India level a model BPR has been circulated.
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