Passport Seva Project- The good news for ‘aam janta’ is that apart from the information of the progress of the passprt applications on web they would also be receiving alerts on their mobile numbers, that have been provided during filling of application, about the status of their application.
Delhi Police plans to bring in electronic round-the-clock surveillance in bustling marketplaces and other sensitive and vulnerable places where terrorist strikes are at high risk.
The Government of Switzerland would be introducing biometric identity Identity Cards by the year 2010. The cards will be electronically encoded with photo and fingerprints.
The Gurgaon Police has launched an online Citizen-Centric Policing System to enable the filing and tracking of complaints.
The Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram stated that biometric Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards will be introduced to the income tax payers of the country. In the first phase, these will be issued to new applicants.
The Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA) of Bhutan is planning to launch an electronic registration and licensing information system (e-Ralies), which will allow to track the movement of passenger bus services in the country.
Around 170 men and women in two villages of Bihar (India) would be the first to be registered as members of the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme (NREG), India through a foolproof biometric verification device.
Portugal Government will replace all ID documents through ‘Citizen card’ Biometrics ID card. Precise Biometrics AB has signed a 7 year contract with Portugese government to provide national ID cards in the country.
The Jharkhand Government, India has rolled out a computer education and computer-aided education programme to down link based education at the local level. The programme would be covered in 440 schools across the 22 district of the state.
In response to the perceived threat being posed to privacy by radio tags that emerged in EU study of technology, the commissioner Viviane Reding assured citizens that radio tags would not lead to any large-scale surveillance.
