Dept. of Food and Civil Supplies to begin issuing biometric ration cards in...
The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs in India will begin issuing photo-biometric ration cards for current Below the Poverty Line (BPL) and Above the Poverty Line (APL) card...
View ArticleIndian Finance ministry plans biometric ATMs
In an attempt to encourage greater Aadhaar enrollment, the finance ministry in India has asked all public sector and rural banks to speed up the implementation of biometric ATMS, hindustantimes...
View ArticleMorpho subsidiaries in India get ISO certification
Morpho (Safran) has announced that two of its Indian subsidiaries have received ISO certification. Namely, Smart Chip Ltd. has secured ISO 20000 and ISO 18000 certification, and Syscom has achieved ISO...
View ArticleTrade Unions in India resist EPFO’s Aadhaar mandate
Trade unions in India have taken issue with the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization’s (EPFO) decision to make Aadhaar registration mandatory for its millions of existing subscribers and new members....
View ArticleBiometric smart cards for prisoners in India
The Ministry of Home Affairs prisons department in India is set to introduce a smart card for all prisoners, which will include prisoner biometrics. Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation will...
View ArticleDigitalPersona fingerprint scanners get certified by STQC
DigitalPersona, Inc., has announced that its Eikon Touch 500 with TouchChip TCS1 Sensor and U.are.U 4500 Reader UID edition fingerprint scanners have been certified by the Standardisation Testing and...
View ArticleMHADA to use biometrics to prevent property lottery fraud
The Maharashtra and Area Development Authority (Mhada) is considering deploying a biometric iris and finger scanning system to curb fraud regarding its annual lottery system for homes in the state....
View ArticleNo timeline can be given for Indian citizen ePassports: Chief Passport Officer
No strangers to massive biometric deployments, Indian government officials have announced plans for a biometric passport for its citizens, though considering the amount of work involved, no timeline...
View ArticleBiometric attendance systems for India’s rural government primary schools
The Indian government will introduce biometric attendance systems for teachers and students in government primary schools in rural areas, according to the country’s Chief Minister. Making the...
View ArticleDelhi Police commissioner wants mandatory biometrics for SIM card sales
Biometric registration and verification for SIM card sales is really catching on. Just this week, Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said he is looking to make it mandatory. According to a report...
View ArticleIndian dept. of telecommunication to consider biometric verification for SIM...
Momentum has been gathering quickly to force a move that would see Indian SIM card sales verified with biometrics. Now the department of telecommunication (DoT) has been asked to examine the...
View ArticleIndian student group wants to suspend Aadhaar, NPR enrollment
A student group in Northern India has come out and asked the government to suspend biometric enrollment and to stop the implementation of Aadhaar in Meghalaya. According to a report in the Assam...
View ArticleMedical college in India pens proposal for universal biometric verification
A medical college in India has struggled to ensure that its students are who they say they are, and that’s why it’s proposed that biometric verification be introduced widely across the country’s...
View ArticleFollowing student disruptions, Meghalaya government suspends NRP enrolment
The Meghalaya government has suspended biometric enrolment following the disruptions of National Population Register camps throughout the Northern Indian state capital. As we reported in...
View ArticleAadhaar enrolment to continue, despite misleading newspaper ads
The Aadhaar enrolment cycle will continue until every Indian resident has an Aadhaar card. That’s the message from the civic body and UIDAI in Chennai, following some confusion around the process and...
View ArticleBioEnable to supply USB fingerprint sensors for biometric drivers’ licenses...
BioEnable has announced that it has been selected by the Regional Transport office of Pune, India to supply biometric fingerprint scanners for drivers’ license registrations. Specifically, says the...
View ArticleNew Delhi medical dispensaries adopt biometric workforce management
The Directorate of Health Service in New Delhi is set to deploy biometric workforce management machines in 98 medical dispensaries across the capital. According to a report in the Hindu, this news...
View ArticleTop biometrics news stories, week of June 1
Biometrics Week in Review: MasterCard and the Bank of Punjab, Gemalto ePassports in Moldova, Australian immigration and border protection minister Scott Morrison, IBM awarded for its mobile ID...
View ArticleEnrollment agencies in major Aadhaar dispute
Private businesses that are engaged in Aadhaar enrollment are protesting the high penalties being levied on them by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), due to enrollment errors. In...
View ArticleNSA allegedly using Aadhaar to spy on India
India’s new Bharatiya Janata Party government has come under pressure to scrap Aadhaar, the program which aims to enroll all of the country’s residents through biometrics. The Left Front, an alliance...
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