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Govt to mandate RFID cards for all toll payments Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath has said that the government will soon be making it a must for all vehicles to be fitted with RFID cards for making road toll payments. “Within 18 months we will ensure that RFID is being installed in every vehicle. It will be like a chip that you use for mobile phone. You charge it with whatever amount you want
and make the payment when required,” Nath said. All new vehicles would be coming with pre-fitted RFID chips, once the new rule comes into effect. Nath said each card would cost `70 initially and the price may go down to `50 once the chip is used on a large scale. The minister further said the RFID technology would help bring in consistency and transpar-
identity management
Orissa to make UID more inclusive, adds 12 base specs In Orissa, at least a dozen more specifications will be added to the ‘Aadhaar’ scheme for providing unique identification (UID) numbers to citizens, according to the state government. A decision to this effect has been taken at a high-level meeting attended by chief secretary, director census for the state, among other officials. The list of specifications will include documents like ration card, BPL/
APL, driving license, PAN, EPIC, passport, Kissan and credit card, LPG, Rashtriya Swasthya Vikas Yojana, pension ID and pass book numbers and NREGS data. Orissa chief secretary BK Patnaik said the work for biometric data collection for preparation of UID would start in December from eight districts in the Kalahandi-BalangirKoraput region. People are expected to be getting UID in these areas from around mid-2011.
ency to the toll collection process. “It is quite safe and most advanced technology. It can be used for various purposes.” RFID uses communication via electromagnetic waves to exchange data between an object, in this case vehicles and a terminal. The technology, generally used for identification and tracking purposes, can be used on any products, animal or person. public grievance
Karnataka to offer call centre-based RTI services Government of Karnataka will be adding telephony as a channel that can be used by citizens for Right to Information (RTI) services to enable citizens who are not computer health
e-Health cards for Uttarakhand govt employees soon
Uttarakhand state government employees and pensioners will be provided with health smart cards, under a scheme that will cover two lakh employees for cashless treatment. The
UID enrolments to kick-start in Hyderabad region Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced that it will soon start enrolments for UID cards in Orissa, Chhattisgarh this month and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands from December.
These are all part of the Hyderabad region. The other seven regions are Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Lucknow and Guwahati. UIDAI reportedly has a target to cover 3.11 crore
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savvy access information from government departments. It also plans to set up citizen call centres for the purpose. Citizens will also be able to register and escalate complaints through the call centre channel, which will be integrated with the public grievance management system.
people in Andhra Pradesh in the first phase, from seven districts. It would cover 50 lakh people in Chhattisgarh and the entire population of 3.5 lakh in Andaman and Nicobar by the end of the fiscal year.
facility will be available in the listed government and private hospitals across the country. The health smart card scheme will save government employees from the
hassle of arranging for cash in an emergency. Till now, the process required them to pay for their medical expenses in cash and apply for reimbursement later.
Assam to adopt biometrics-based PDS system Assam will be computerising the public distribution system (PDS) in the state and will be issuing biometric cards to the deserving PDS beneficiaries. The measure is being taken to curb diversion of PDS commodities, which
is understood to be in the range of 15 percent to 25 percent. The state government is finding it impracticable to plug the leakages in the existing system. A biometrics-based system is expected to rid PDS of its inefficiencies.