03 October 2016 16:39 GMT
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Plans to use India’s biometrics-backed ID database with a ration card system in Maharashtra state are being complicated by reported data issues. The state government has said that biometric point of sale (POS) machines will be installed in all 53,000 ration shops in Maharashtra for authentication, reports DNAIndia. The project is expected to be in place by March next year, with at least some of these terminals already being commissioned. While 86.86% of these cards have been seeded with Aadhaar numbers so far. Sources said the validation of these Aadhaar numbers after their seeding with ration cards was proving to be slightly difficult due to inconsistencies in the data. "Many times, names on the ration cards do not match with details in the Aadhaar database. Sometimes, people use suffixes like Kumari and Shrimati while writing their names, which leads to inconsistencies being thrown up," said a senior official.
However, food and civil supplies minister Girish Bapat has denied that problems had come up in the validation process.
Another official said that the biometrics based system would weed out duplicate card holders, and bogus and ghost beneficiaries from the system as a pilot conducted in Sangli, Jalgaon and Shirur (Pune) had revealed.
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