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March 13, 2010 Unique ID project makes a start in 2 AP districts 56-day pilot to cover 30,000 people.. The reason for selecting Andhra Pradesh for the initiative is because of the State’s experience in implementing the country’s largest biometric programme. K.V. Kurmanath Hyderabad, March 12. The ambitious project to give a unique identity number...

March 07, 2010 Unique ID cards for 30 lakh in pilot project 56-day pilot to cover 30,000 people.. The reason for selecting Andhra Pradesh for the initiative is because of the State’s experience in implementing the country’s largest biometric programme. K.V. Kurmanath Hyderabad, March 12. The ambitious project to give a unique identity number to...

March 07, 2010 UIDA official happy with enrollment process SANGAREDDY: Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDA) Deputy Director-General V.S. Bhaskar on Saturday visited the enrollment stations set up for enrolling residents of Veluru of Wargal mandal in Medak district.. The enrollment is being taken up as part of benchmarking the biometric standards as part of...

March 04, 2010 Unique ID pilot project launched PORANKI: The library adjacent to the panchayat office of this village near Vijayawada was a hub of activity on Wednesday with curious men and women queuing up outside the single-room structure with four enrollment stations set up by 4G Identity Solutions, a Hyderabad-based company dealing with identity...

February 19, 2010 Unique ID Software Tested SANGAREDDY: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Director-General R.S. Sharma has expressed satisfaction with the software developed by Hyderabad-based 4G Identity Solutions.. He, however, suggested conducting of a pilot test covering about 30,000 persons in 20 villages in the next phase. Mr. Sharma, along with a team, visited...

May 31, 2008 State to launch iris ration cards One-time solution to weed out bogus cards The size of cards will be 1.5 times more than a postcard The beneficiaries will be given coupons to buy commodities BHUBANESWAR: Eyeing at a one-time solution to bamboozling of food ration cards in Orissa, World Food Programme (WFP)...

October 21, 2005 Forget IDs, your eyes are enough HYDERABAD: Forget the attendance register or even the swipe card. Iris recognition is the in-thing. More and more employers are using this technology to record attendance of its employees and also for personal identification. The AP Secretariat took the lead in installing iris recognition-based biometric access-control...

July 3, 2005 Guntur leads in adoption of iris technology System used for registration of beneficiaries under Rajiv Gruhakalpa schemeGuntur became the first district in the State to adopt the iris identification technology in the social welfare sector by implementing it for the registration of beneficiaries under the Rajiv Gruhakalpa Scheme. The District Collector, G....

July 3, 2005 Iris ‘eye’ to identify bogus beneficiaries For the first time in the country the Guntur administration is using iris recognition system in a welfare program. This system was adopted to identify beneficiaries in urban poor housing program. Iris recognition is an effective means of keeping administrative control over welfare schemes distribution, observed...

July 2, 2005 Iris Technology curbs flaws The innovative iris recognition system has helped authorities identify irregularities in Rajeev Gruhakalpa scheme for the poor. The method involves digital encoding of the image of the irises of applicants. Using the identification system, the authorities found out that one B.Nagamaleswara Rao of sangadigunta in Guntur district tried...