National Population Register To Start Biometrics Data Collection

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National Population Register To Start Biometrics Data Collection
The National Population Register (NPR) will start collecting biometric data of the country’s entire adult population between December 2010 and January 2011. NPR will be the biggest biometric database — including face, fingerprint and iris recognition of the over 1 billion Indian population — that has ever been made. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been established by the government to implement the scheme and assign unique numbers to all citizens. "We have an agreement with the Registrar General of India that the NPR exercise under the 2011 census would collect biometrics data as well. At present we are in the first phase of NPR which gets the basic information of an individual. In the second phase we will collect the biometrics data. This will start sometime around December 2010 and January 2011," said R S Sharma, director general UIDAI. Sharma believes collecting data in phases will be easier instead of doing it simultaneously with the current process of census. "You have to keep in mind the logistical hurdles that this project has. It is not going to be a simple and trivial thing to collect biometrics data. It’s a good idea to collect textual data first and digitise it before adding the biometrics data."