Aadhaar Update: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay. Under the agreement, a robust touchless biometric capture system will be developed for easy use by people anytime, anywhere.
Along with this, UIDAI and IIT Bombay will also jointly conduct research to create a mobile capture system for fingerprints with liveness model associated with the capture system.
Will allow authentication from home
The touchless biometric capture system, once developed and commissioned, will enable home based facial authentication as well as fingerprint authentication. The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that it is expected that the new system will capture multiple fingerprints in one go and help in achieving the authentication success rate. Once the new system is implemented, the existing facilities available in the Aadhaar ecosystem will be augmented.
A touchless biometric capture system, once developed, will allow fingerprint authentication from home & capture multiple fingerprints at one go.#Aadhaar #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #indiastack #digitalindia @UIDAI @iitbombay @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw @Rajeev_GoI pic.twitter.com/gpegj65VOt
— Ministry of Electronics & IT (@GoI_MeitY) April 11, 2023
Joint initiative of IIT Bombay and Ministry of Electronics and IT
NCETIS is a joint initiative of IIT Bombay and Ministry of Electronics & IT under its flagship Digital India programme. NCETIS aims to develop indigenous technology solutions for the Internal Security Forces in the broad areas of Electronic System Design and Manufacturing. Along with this, this step will be important in the direction of making Universal Authenticator.
Increased use of Aadhaar in government services
Let us tell you that Aadhaar has done the work of connecting the person standing at the last rung with the banking facilities (transaction). The use of Aadhaar card is giving benefits of government schemes to the people. Presently, Aadhaar card is being used in about 900 public welfare schemes being run by the Central and State Governments in the country.
