India Plans for Biometric Records and National IDs

India plans to create biometric records of every member of its 1.2 billion population over the age of 15.
India Plans for Biometric Records and National IDs
Indian residents purchases vegetables at a roadside vegetable market in Allahabad on April 1. India has started counting its teeming billion-plus population for a new census that will gather biometric data for the first time from across the vast and chaotic nation. Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images
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Indian residents purchases vegetables at a roadside vegetable market in Allahabad on April 1. India has started counting its teeming billion-plus population for a new census that will gather biometric data for the first time from across the vast and chaotic nation. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)
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