Question : Biometric Scanning

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Biometric scanning facility will be provided in JeevanPramaan mobile app while using the latest mobile phones which includes Biometric reading facility so that lakhs of senior citizens would be facilitated to submit their details for life certificate with much more ease; and

(b) if not, the reasons therefor?

(A) and (b): The JeevanPramaaan App developed to facilitate senior citizens submission for details of life has been designed to use Aadhaar based face authentication in the latest android smart phones. Further, STQC certified, UIDAI registered biometric devices may also be used for generation of JeevanPramaan.


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