Aadhaar Mandatory For TB Patients To Get Cash Assistance Under Government Scheme [Read Notification]

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in the exercise of its powers under Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies) Act 2016, has notified that Aadhaar is necessary as an identity proof for availing of conditional cash assistance under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP).The Ministry administers centrally-sponsored RNTCP using...