The Haryana Government is creating a database of residents in the state under the centre's UID project which the state has begun to implement. The database would be integrated with the delivery of citizen-centric services under various social welfare programmes of the state government to ensure that benefits reached the target audience, an official spokesman today said. He said a number of flagship projects - PDS, driving licences, vehicle registration, administration of commercial taxes and integrated financial management system, had been identified and taken up for implementation under the project. The spokesman said expansion of the base of IT industry, IT education and increased usage of information and communication technology in governance constituted the key areas of focus of the government, and the new industrial and investment policy-2011 planned various interventions in this regard. Concrete steps have been taken for creation of adequate backbone infrastructure through the state wide area network, he said. He said since vocational education and skill development were critically important, a state-level skill development mission had been set up to ensure inter-sectoral coordination. The mission is doing resource-mapping for offering training in identified skills in various technical institutions of the state. The state government plans to set up 13 ITIs and 96 skill development centres in the PPP mode, he added.