Does the beneficiary exist here?
The enumerator locates the household from the list address, records whether the named person lives there, has moved or has died, and captures location evidence of the visit.
Services · Scheme verification
Is the person on the list real, eligible and actually receiving the benefit?
A beneficiary verification survey checks, household by household, whether the people on a scheme list exist, meet the eligibility rules and received what the records say. Bharat Survey runs these for state departments, district administrations and implementing agencies: we draw a random sample from your list, send trained enumerators to the doorstep with an offline app, capture GPS, time and consented photos, and return a verified list with every mismatch explained. We support official processes like e-KYC and seeding drives; we do not replace them.
- Random sample drawn from your beneficiary list
- Doorstep visit with GPS, time and photo evidence
- Mismatch codes: not found, ineligible, duplicate, not received
- Beneficiary data used only for the assignment
Home #17 · Visit outcome
- Complete
- Partial
- Declined
- No contact
- Home locked
- Revisit
Location evidence
Survey #BS-0412
- In areaInside approx. boundary
- Accuracy±12 m
- Time09:42 · fresh fix
- Mock GPSNot detected
- Interview length11 min
Added to accepted count
3,000
Target homes
2,184
Visits
1,962
Completed
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted surveysLast 12 days
Physical verificationEligibility checksReceipt confirmationDuplicate detectionGrievance capturePhoto evidenceDistrict-wise reportsConsent-first visits
Why we do this work
What a visit checks
Do they meet the eligibility rules?
Structured questions mirror the scheme's exclusion criteria, such as income tax payment, landholding or government employment, so the answer is recorded consistently.
Did the benefit arrive?
Instalments, cylinders, rations or treatment are confirmed with the beneficiary, with dates where they remember them, and any gap is noted without accusation.
Is there a grievance?
Problems like wrong bank account, pending e-KYC or denial at the ration shop are captured in a coded list the department can act on.
Direct benefit transfer
Deduplication by database matching catches the same Aadhaar or bank account twice. It cannot catch two genuinely different records for one household, a beneficiary who died, or a name added from a family that has migrated. A field survey on a sample of flagged and unflagged records shows how much of the problem a database match misses.
How we sample
We draw a stratified random sample from the list you share, with extra draws from records your system has already flagged. Enumerators do not know which records were flagged. That keeps the visit neutral and lets the report compare the two groups honestly.
What the department receives
A record-level file with the visit outcome for every sampled beneficiary, GPS and time of the visit, a photo where consent was given, and a summary of error rates by district and by type of error, with the sample size behind each figure.
Outcome codes
- Verified and eligible
- Verified, ineligible
- Not found at address
- Deceased
- Migrated
- Duplicate within household
- Benefit not received
By scheme
The field method stays the same; the eligibility questions and evidence change by scheme.
PM Kisan e-KYC field verification
PM-KISAN operational guidelines ask states to check around 5% of beneficiaries for eligibility each year. We visit sampled farmers, verify landholding details against exclusion criteria, and record whether e-KYC, land seeding and bank seeding are pending so the block can close them.
- Exclusion criteria checklist
- Pending e-KYC flagged for official completion
- Land record reference noted
PMJAY beneficiary interaction survey
Beneficiary interaction for Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY checks whether a patient was admitted, treated and discharged as the claim states, and whether any money was asked for.
- Claim details confirmed with patient or family
- Out-of-pocket payment questions
- Sensitive health data minimised
Ayushman bharat beneficiary feedback survey
A feedback survey on card issuance, hospital experience and grievance redress, run as short interviews that record satisfaction without collecting diagnosis details.
- Card and empanelled hospital awareness
- Experience scores
Poshan abhiyaan beneficiary survey
Household checks for pregnant women, lactating mothers and young children on take-home ration receipt and anganwadi services, with extra consent care for mothers and children.
- Take-home ration receipt
- Anganwadi visit frequency
Ujjwala yojana beneficiary survey
Verification that a PMUY connection exists in the beneficiary's household, whether refills are being taken and why not, with a consented photo of the connection.
- Connection in household
- Refill usage and barriers
PDS aadhaar seeding verification survey
Field checks for ration card members whose seeding is incomplete: whether members exist, still live in the household and have been able to draw rations. The Aadhaar number itself is not collected by our enumerators.
- Member existence and residence
- Ration drawal experience
- No Aadhaar numbers captured
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Food security
Ration card e-KYC is completed through the official biometric process at the fair price shop or designated centres. What an outside agency can add is the household visit: finding members who have not completed e-KYC, confirming whether they live there, and recording why they have not come forward. Elderly members, migrants and people whose fingerprints fail are common reasons.
Why we stay away from authentication
Aadhaar authentication can only be performed through licensed entities under UIDAI rules. Our enumerators do not scan fingerprints or collect Aadhaar numbers. They record the household's status and direct members to the official channel, which keeps the verification lawful and the data exposure small.
Poverty and targeting
Some departments need households identified before a scheme list is drawn up. As a survey agency for poverty estimation and beneficiary identification, we run listing and socio-economic questionnaires across sampled or full villages, mapped to LGD codes so results roll up to block and district.
The same field set-up lets us act as a data collection agency for poverty estimation and beneficiary identification, or as a third party evaluation agency for poverty estimation and beneficiary identification when a department wants an independent check on a list another team prepared.
- Village and ward listing mapped to LGD codes
- Socio-economic questionnaire on deprivation indicators
- Independent re-check of lists prepared by others
Identification studies
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Survey agency for poverty estimation and beneficiary identification
Listing every household in the selected area, then a short deprivation questionnaire so eligibility is decided on consistent criteria rather than local discretion.
Full or sampled listing02
Poverty estimation and beneficiary identification survey services India
Sample-based estimates of how many households meet criteria in a district, used to plan budgets before a door-to-door identification drive.
Sample survey03
Independent re-check
A random re-visit of a share of identified households by a separate team, reported as an agreement rate, so the department knows how reliable the list is.
Quality checkNot the right fit if
- Perform Aadhaar authentication or e-KYC ourselves
- Delete beneficiaries; we report, the department decides
- Collect bank passwords, OTPs or full Aadhaar numbers
- Publicly name ineligible beneficiaries
A good fit if
- Random physical verification samples
- Grievance and pending-e-KYC capture
- District-wise error rate reports
- Identification and listing surveys
Government survey solutions
Household, facility and scheme surveys for departments.
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Government survey services explained in Hindi.
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How survey services are usually procured on GeM.
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Independent evaluation of whole schemes.
Learn moreFAQ
Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.
What sample size is needed for beneficiary verification?
It depends on the size of the list, the error rate you expect and whether you need separate figures per district or block. Scheme guidelines sometimes set a share, such as the roughly 5% checking suggested under PM-KISAN. We share a sample calculation that meets the guideline and gives estimates precise enough to act on.
Do enumerators collect Aadhaar numbers?
No. We match records using the scheme ID or list serial number you share. Aadhaar numbers are not captured in our forms, and we do not perform biometric or OTP authentication, which only licensed entities may do under UIDAI rules.
Can a beneficiary be removed based on your survey?
Our report gives evidence; the decision stays with the competent authority under the scheme's rules. We recommend that any proposed deletion is followed by a notice and a chance for the household to respond, and our data includes the visit details needed for that follow-up.
How do you prevent fake visits?
Every record carries GPS location, time and interview duration from the app, and visits outside the assigned village are flagged. Supervisors independently re-visit a share of households. Records failing these checks are not counted as verified.
How is beneficiary data protected?
The list you share is loaded only for the assignment, visible to enumerators just for their allotted households, encrypted on the device until sync, and deleted from our systems when you instruct us.
India Nationwide, Hindi-first
Tell us the scheme, districts and list size. We will propose a sample, a questionnaire and a timeline.