Wayanad is the first district in the nation to offer basic documentation to all tribal: Wayanad in Kerala becomes the first district in the nation to offer all tribespeople access to essential records and services like Aadhaar cards, ration cards, birth and death certificates, election ID cards, bank accounts, and health insurance. Apart from the basic documents, other services such as income certificates, ownership certificates, age certificates, and applications for new pensions are also provided at the camps.
January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz
Through this camp:
The Wayanad district administration has attained the meritorious achievement by providing 1,42,563 services to as many as 64,670 tribal beneficiaries as part of the Akshaya Big Campaign for Document Digitisation (ABCD) campaign. As part of the ABCD campaign, ration cards were distributed to 15,796 families, Aadhar cards to 31,252, birth certificates to 11,300, voters’ identity cards to 22,488 people, and digital lockers to 22,888 people. In November 2021, the campaign was introduced in Thondarnadu grama panchayat. The campaign is aimed at ensuring basic documents to all citizens belonging to the Scheduled Tribes communities and these documents are digitalised and saved in DigiLocker accounts opened for them.
Digitalising the documents through DigiLocker will help the beneficiaries easily retrieve the documents in case these are lost or damaged.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
Kerala Capital: Thiruvananthapuram;
Kerala Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan;
Kerala Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan
