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The Haryana Parivar Pehchan Act, 2021

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This Act establishes a system for the formal identification of families in Haryana through a unique "Parivar Pehchan number." It applies to all individuals residing in the state, including government employees stationed elsewhere, and creates a centralized repository to verify eligibility. The primary objective is to streamline the delivery of government benefits, subsidies, and services by ensuring that accurate and verifiable family information is used in public welfare schemes. This measure helps the state government and local bodies provide aid more efficiently and transparently to ensure that the right people receive it.

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  1. 1. Short title and commencement.
  2. 2. Definitions.
  3. 3. Entitlement to obtain Parivar Pehchan number.
  4. 4. Verification of information.
  5. 5. Parivar Pehchan number.
  6. 6. Family Information Data Repository.
  7. 7. Requirement to update or correct information.
  8. 8. Requirement of Parivar Pehchan number.
  9. 9. Responsibility of maintaining data of birth, death and marriage.
  10. 10. Establishment of Haryana Parivar Pehchan Authority.
  11. 11. Constitution of Authority.
  12. 12. Qualifications, tenure and terms and conditions of Deputy Chairperson.
  13. 13. Allowances to members.
  14. 14. Meetings of Authority.
  15. 15. Appointment, terms and conditions of Chief Executive Officer.
  16. 16. Officers and other staff of Authority.
  17. 17. Constitution of Executive Committee.
  18. 18. Delegation of powers.
  19. 19. General superintendence, direction and management of affairs of Authority.
  20. 20. Power to engage experts and professionals.
  21. 21. Vacancies etc., not to invalidate proceedings.
  22. 22. Avoidance of conflict of interest.
  23. 23. Powers and functions of Authority.
  24. 24. Fund.
  25. 25. Annual grants, loans and advances.
  26. 26. Power to borrow.
  27. 27. Power to invest.
  28. 28. Budget.
  29. 29. Accounts and audit.
  30. 30. Annual report.
  31. 31. Security and confidentiality of information.
  32. 32. Penalty for impersonation.
  33. 33. Penalty for impersonation of Parivar Pehchan number holder by changing information.
  34. 34. Penalty for impersonation claiming authority to collect information.
  35. 35. Penalty for unauthorized access.
  36. 36. Penalty for tampering data.
  37. 37. General penalty.
  38. 38. Offences by companies.
  39. 39. Penalties not to interfere with other punishments.
  40. 40. Cognizance of offences.
  41. 41. Public servants.
  42. 42. Power of State Government to issue directions.
  43. 43. Protection of action taken in good faith.
  44. 44. Application of other laws not barred.
  45. 45. Power to make rules.
  46. 46. Power to make regulations.
  47. 47. Power to remove difficulties.
  48. 48. Savings.

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