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AP becomes the first state in India to get biometric authentication cards
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Monday, 31 January, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy launched the Aadhar-based smart cards in Maheswaram Mandal, which is about 24 km from Hyderabad.
Maheswaram became the first revenue division in the country to use the biometric authentication cards.
Reddy said 11,000 households in the Mandal would get ration on the basis of the cards and it would also be useful for availing a number of other welfare schemes of the state government.
"The smart cards would help remove bogus beneficiaries, if any, from the list and ensure transparency," he said.
The state civil supplies minister, D Sridhar Babu, said 11,000 households had been identified and brought under the Aadhar smart card scheme.
"The biometrics of these families have been captured and these people will be given the cards which will be useful not only for drawing ration but for arogya sri (health insurance scheme), scholarships (for backward class students) and various other schemes," Sridhar Babu said.
"The government hopes to distribute the cards in the entire state within six to eight months," he said.
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