Contending that strengthening of the Public Distribution System will play a major role in controlling spiralling prices of essential commodities, Tamil Nadu today suggested implementation of steps like biometric identification to eliminate bogus-card and e-governance solution to the PDS administration.

Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin said technological intervention can alone improve the public delivery system by plugging leakages and suggested taking steps like biometric identification to eliminate bogus-card, billing machine with smart card reader to eliminate bogus billing and e-governance solution to the PDS administration.

"Tamil Nadu is ready to implement such project.. since the Director General of Census is also planning to capture biometric data while carrying out total population register," Stalin said, addressing the meeting of the core group of state Chief Ministers on price rise convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here.

"I suggest that the Government of India may issue instructions for taking up the biometric capture of data as per UIDAI standards jointly by the states and Census Department to avoid duplication of work. The expenditure may be shared. This will go a long way in improving the PDS administration," he said.