A Means To The End?

Biometric survey of slum-dwellers begins 

COIMBATORE: Under a scheme to provide houses to slum-dwellers, a bio-metric survey of about 2,000 families living in the slums that encroached upon Valankulam Tank began in Ward 25 in the city on Tuesday. The impression of the left thumb of the beneficiaries were being scanned and stored in a database along with the family and income details.
-hindu.com

Gujarat DFS to map India's DNA

AHMEDABAD: Indians will get another unique identification, this time on a micro scale, under a project to map and store DNA fingerprints. And,
enabling this would be Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS), Gandhinagar, which will be the nodal agency for the project.
-times of india

City to see digitisation of ration cards by March

Pune and Hyderabad will be the first cities in the country to start computerised fairprice shops. In Pune, the project of digitisation of ration cards for all 1,100 shops will start by March next year, said Apurva Chandra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India.
-indianexpress

The Economic Times India Financial Inclusion Summit 2009

It’s been one of the key priorities for the RBI for quite some time. And now it is getting the attention of top bureaucrats as well. On 4th
December, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, along with Nandan Nilekani, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, will drive home the importance of financial inclusion to a star-studded gathering of financial honchos at The Oberoi, New Delhi.
-economictimes.indiatimes.