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Jammu and Kashmir Greenlights Unique Family ID System and Mobilizes Technical Teams

With planning complete, technical teams are set to begin building a centralised household database

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Overview

  • Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo chaired a high-level meeting to finalise the project scope and assign roles across government departments.
  • Secretary of IT Dr Piyush Singla confirmed that the necessary infrastructure and technical capacity are in place for territory-wide implementation.
  • Planners identified datasets from the Public Distribution System and Ayushman Bharat–PMJAY as the primary sources for the unified family ID database.
  • The system’s architecture includes provisions for updating household records in response to births, deaths and migration.
  • Senior officials from finance, rural development, urban development and J&K Bank will collaborate with BISAG-N and JaKeGA to support the rollout.