Data security government's priority, says Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 14

The Chief Minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar said widening the domain of verification of Parivar Pehchan Patra along with maintaining the security of its data was priority of the government. Khattar made the comments while presiding over the fourth meeting of Haryana Parivar Pehchan Authority (HPPA) on Thursday.

The CM informed that 443 government services and schemes of 43 departments have been integrated with Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) and further 120 of them are under consideration. Through the ‘Pehchan Patra’ the government is reaching at the doorstep of every beneficiary of the government services and schemes. During the meeting he was apprised that over 67 lakh families were registered with the scheme and various options to ease the process of verification, correction module and grievance redressal were created to ease the applicants. He was also told about various initiatives taken to avoid any data tampering. He was informed that regular security audits from empanelled agencies will be initiated from time to time, creation of data back up and its regular monitoring.

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