The Planning Commission on Thursday approved Tripura’s Plan outlay of Rs 2,250 crore for 2012-13, which is 15.38 per cent higher than the allocation for this fiscal.

“The annual Plan size of Rs 2,250 crore for the year 2012-13 for Tripura was finalised here at a meeting between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Tripura Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar,” an official statement said here.

New Delhi Officials of the food, agriculture and finance ministries will meet the state and central ministers concerned in a bid to thrash out objections raised by the states over the proposed Food Security Bill. The two-day conference that begins on Wednesday will also take up the creation of additional infrastructure for grain storage.

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia may be okay with a little overlap between the National Population Register exercise and UIDAI's aadhar project, but an earlier note prepared by the Plan Panel had pegged the cost of this duplication at Rs 15,000 crore.

To overcome the delay in payment of wages to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers in Jharkhand, allegedly owing to administrative apathy, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has piloted a project in Jharkhand.

Under the project, online authentication and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) in respect of MGNREGS was conducted in three blocks of three districts.

UIDAI chairman-led panel report suggests creation of Public Distribution System Network by April 2012
Apanel headed by Unique ID Authority chairman Nandan Nilekani has suggested computerisation of public distribution system (PDS) and use of cash transfers and coupons to streamline subsidy distribution.

Bid to add social content to UID scheme, otherwise in limbo
With the AADHAR scheme apparently in limbo, the Centre is making a desperate effort to provide it social content.
As of now, only 3.5 crore unique identification cards have been issued as against an enrolment of 10 crore people across the country.

Matters turned worse when the Reserve Bank of India issued a directive that bank accounts could not be opened on the basis of UID cards.
But later it issued a clarification accepting AADHAR cards as proof of identity and residence.

State has more names in ration cards than its population as detailed in Census 2011; 29 per cent already enrolled for Aadhaar
Is it under-registering of its residents in Census 2011, the migrant population or fake ration cards? Having already enrolled 29 per cent of its population under Aadhaar - the brand name of the 12-digit Unique Identification number (UID) - Himachal Pradesh hopes to end the mystery of more people being registered in ration cards than its population.

The government is planning to cap sale of subsidised cooking gas (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinders to each household in a phased manner, while putting in a mechanism for direct transfer of subsidy to the intended beneficiaries.

Thiruvananthapuram The new UDF government in Kerala is taking a headlong plunge into the R15,000-crore Unique Identification Card (UID card) project.