Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Scheme:
There has been a privacy concern with respect to Haryana’s Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Scheme.
- Although enrollment under the scheme is voluntary, the precondition of linking it to get the benefit of many essential services has raised serious concerns about the scheme.
Current Issue:
- Although the enrollment under the PPP is voluntary, but in case a citizen or a family wishes to apply for a service delivered by the Haryana government, the PPP ID would be required, which leaves very little choice before the residents.
- In the absence of privacy laws in India, or any indication of data protection Standard Operating Procedures being followed for this exercise, there is a strong possibility of potential abuse of the data collected under the PPP.
- Moreover, a lot of data that is being sought is well above and beyond what is required for the delivery of a particular service.
Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Scheme:
- The PPP scheme was formally launched in July 2019 to achieve the Haryana government’s vision for ‘paperless’ and ‘faceless’ delivery of schemes, services, and benefits offered by the state government.
- Under this, each family is considered a single unit and gets an 8-digit unique identification number, called family ID.
- Family IDs are also linked to independent schemes like scholarships, subsidies, and pensions, so as to ensure consistency and reliability.
- It also enables the automatic selection of beneficiaries of various schemes, subsidies, and pensions.
