• Recently, there has been a privacy concern with respect to Haryana’s Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Scheme.
• PPP scheme was formally launched in July 2019 to achieve Haryana government’s vision for ‘paperless’ and ‘faceless’ delivery of schemes, services and benefits offered by the state government.
• Under this, each family is considered a single unit and gets an 8-digit unique identification number, called family ID.

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• Family IDs are also linked to independent schemes like scholarships, subsidies and pensions, so as to ensure consistency and reliability.
• It also enables automatic selection of beneficiaries of various schemes, subsidies and pensions.
• The primary objective of Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) is to create authentic, verified and reliable data of all families in Haryana.
• The PPP, mathematically, is an integral number of Aadhaar
• While Aadhaar represents an individual as a unit, a PPP represents a family as a unit
• Most of our government schemes are structured around the family
• It is not structured around an individual
• For example, ration eligibility is there for the family but the family can split it into various members as long as they are above 18 years and say they are separating entitlements for all individuals