Chidambaram hands over first resident ID cards in Andaman

Bhoolaxmi gets first card from home minister

PTI | January 23, 2012



Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today handed over to villagers of Prothrapur in Andaman and Nicobar Islands the first lot of resident identity cards having their details in microchips, an initiative aimed at boosting maritime security.

The first card was given to a woman named Bhoolaxmi.

These smart cards are part of the Centre's ambitious National Population Register (NPR) scheme with approved cost of Rs 216.31 crore under which specific details of residents of coastal areas in nine maritime states and Union Territories who have attained the age of 18 years will be collected and issued a smart card.

Speaking on the occasion, Chidambaram said about 2.56 lakh cards, each with a 64 KB microprocessor chip, will be distributed in Andaman.

In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, besides the villages, all the towns will also be covered in the first phase itself.

The scheme will also cover Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Daman and Diu).

The demographic data collection of 1.2 crore people and the biometrics of 75 lakh people in 3,331 coastal villages under the coastal NPR project have been completed and 5 lakh smart cards have been produced till date.

The cards have been designed by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with several physical security features like Guilloche patterns, hot stamped hologram and micro text.

The electronic security feature of the micro processor chip fitted in the card have been recommended by a Technical Committee, headed by the Director General, National Informatics Centre and several experts from academic institutions and industry.

The National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, has finalized the visual layout of RIC, which incorporates several physical security features like Guilloche patterns, hot stamped hologram and micro text etc.

The security features in the micro processer chip have been finalized based on the recommendations of a technical committee, headed by the Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) and consisting of several renowned experts from academic institutions and industry.

The demographic data collection of 1.2 crore and the biometrics of 75 lakh persons in the 3331 coastal villages under the coastal NPR project have been completed. Till date, 5 lakh Identity (smart) cards have been produced.
 

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