Lok Sabha Question No. 2401 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-30
Subject: Aadhaar Number for NGOs
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: KRISHNAN NARAYANASAMY RAMACHANDRAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2401

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 30.11.2016

## AADHAAR NUMBER FOR NGOs

## 2401. SHRI K.N. RAMACHANDRAN:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government  has  made  it mandatory  for  the  Non-Governmental Organisations  (NGOs)  to  present  their  Aadhaar  number  at  the  time  of  registration throughout the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof indicating the number of NGOs which have presented their Aadhaar number so far, State-wise;
- (c) the number of NGOs which have not presented their Aadhaar number in the country, State-wise; and
- (d) the action taken/being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY)

(a),  (b)  and  (c): It  is  mandatory  now  for  all  the  Non-Government  Organisations  (NGOs)/ Voluntary Organisations (VOs) to sign up on the NGO-DARPAN Portal to obtain a system generated  Unique  ID  after  furnishing  PAN  number  of  the  Organisation  and  PAN  and Aadhaar details of at least three office bearers.  For present, the NGOs/ VOs belonging to the State of Assam have been exempted from uploading Aadhaar details of office bearers while signing up on the Portal. As on 25/11/2016 (1500 hrs), a total of 81328 NGOs/ VOs have signed  up  on  the  NGO-DARPAN  Portal.  Out  of  it,  3833  NGOs  have  furnished  details  of 18711 office bearers as per the state-wise details given at Annexure.

(d): In  order  to  make  the  financial  dealings  with  NGOs  more  transparent,  inter  alia,  the following steps have been taken:

- (i)    NGO-DARPAN Portal has been redesigned with provision for unique identifier.
- (ii)    No  financial  grants  to  be  disbursed  to  the  NGOs  during  the  current  financial  year without obtaining a Unique ID number generated from the NGO-DARPAN portal of NITI Aayog, including the cases where part grants had been released earlier.
- (iii)    Provision has been made in the portal to capture PAN details of each entity/NGO along-with PAN and Aadhar details of at least three of its office bearers. All fresh entities have to sign up on the portal with these details.
- (iv)  Ministries/Departments  have  been  asked  to  develop  IT  applications  for  end-to-end processing of applications from the NGOs/VOs for sanction/ release of grants. All
- applications  have  to  be  processed  in  online  mode  only  from    31 st March,  2017 onwards.
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## Annexure

| Statename                  | State   | No. of NGO's (with AADHAR   | Total NGO Members(with AADHAAR)   |   No. of NGO (with PAN) |   No. of NGO's (Total) |
|----------------------------|---------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Island | AN      | 4                           | 19                                |                       8 |                     33 |
| Andhra Pradesh             | AP      | 261                         | 1358                              |                    1096 |                   5170 |
| Arunachal Pradesh          | AR      | 24                          | 115                               |                      77 |                    265 |
| Assam                      | AS      | 79                          | 398                               |                     467 |                   2338 |
| Bihar                      | BR      | 127                         | 610                               |                     735 |                   3924 |
| Chhattisgarh               | CG      | 52                          | 274                               |                     216 |                    786 |
| Chandigarh                 | CH      | 13                          | 53                                |                      42 |                    144 |
| Daman and Diu              | DD      | 3                           | 11                                |                       5 |                     16 |
| Delhi                      | DL      | 249                         | 1058                              |                    1032 |                   4770 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli     | DN      | 1                           | 8                                 |                       4 |                     10 |
| Goa                        | GA      | 7                           | 36                                |                      21 |                     94 |
| Gujarat                    | GJ      | 112                         | 446                               |                     630 |                   3625 |
| Himachal Pradesh           | HP      | 29                          | 140                               |                     104 |                    460 |
| Haryana                    | HR      | 68                          | 296                               |                     294 |                   1216 |
| Jharkhand                  | JH      | 57                          | 277                               |                     335 |                   1602 |
| Jammu and Kashmir          | JK      | 24                          | 115                               |                     196 |                    910 |
| Karnataka                  | KA      | 177                         | 909                               |                     774 |                   3678 |
| Kerala                     | KL      | 105                         | 524                               |                     373 |                   1735 |
| Lakshadweep                | La      |                             |                                   |                       1 |                     13 |
| Maharashtra                | MH      | 339                         | 1550                              |                    1886 |                   9341 |
| Meghalaya                  | ML      | 2                           | 14                                |                      43 |                    219 |
| Manipur                    | MN      | 253                         | 1414                              |                     615 |                   2042 |
| Madhya Pradesh             | MP      | 199                         | 945                               |                    1038 |                   4083 |
| Mizoram                    | MZ      | 6                           | 34                                |                      35 |                     98 |
| Nagaland                   | NL      | 32                          | 144                               |                     107 |                    409 |
| Orissa                     | OR      | 266                         | 1292                              |                     922 |                   3868 |
| Punjab                     | PB      | 27                          | 119                               |                     150 |                    787 |
| Puducherry                 | PY      | 12                          | 45                                |                      61 |                    184 |
| Rajasthan                  | RJ      | 128                         | 540                               |                     553 |                   2771 |
| Sikkim                     | Si      |                             |                                   |                      21 |                     98 |
| Tamil Nadu                 | TN      | 222                         | 1026                              |                    1010 |                   4902 |
| Tripura                    | TR      | 21                          | 108                               |                      75 |                    325 |
| Uttarakhand                | UA      | 58                          | 291                               |                     260 |                   1067 |
| Uttar Pradesh              | UP      | 441                         | 2168                              |                    2184 |                  12711 |
| West Bengal                | WB      | 435                         | 2374                              |                    1693 |                   7634 |
|                            | Total   | 3833                        | 18711                             |                   17063 |                  81328 |