The Hindu 13.03.2013
69 p.c. of city residents record biometric data
Biometric data of about 5.40 lakh city residents above the age of five have been recorded during the first round of special camps conducted to record the data for the issue of national identity cards under the National Population Register programme. The special camps were conducted in the city between October 15 and March 10.
Sixty-nine per cent of the people covered under the enumeration for the National Population Register conducted in 2010 were covered during the exercise, Corporation Commissioner V.P. Thandapani said after distributing certificates to 110 persons who were deployed for recording the biometric data at the camps. The recording biometric data such as fingerprints and Iris was done by a private agency with the corporation acting as a facilitator.
All those who have been covered would be issued the identity cards soon. Those who failed to attend the camps and those who were omitted during the National Population Register enumeration in 2010 would be covered under the second round in April.
