A pan-India National Fingerprint Database:
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A pan-India National Fingerprint Database:
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been decided to establish a pan-India(NFD)National-fingerprint-database to aid in the speedy identification of criminals and information,investigation of crimes across the country.
Key facts of (MAH):
The database will have fingerprint records of 28 lakh convicts from all the states including of those who were arrested for criminal offences.National-Informatics Centre (NIC) will be nodal agency for creating this cloud based national record by linking finger print database of all the States
.The integration of all fingerprint databases will help to the police from any part of the country.
The Delhi based Central Finger Print Bureau(CPFB) has digitized data of over 9.8 lakh finger print records of convicted and arrested persons.Gujarat has the biggest database of fingerprints with 12 lakh records followed by Andhra Pradesh which has 5.3 lakh records and Madhya Pradesh 3 lakh records. In future, (MHA) is also considering to integrate this National fingerprint database with the other biometric techniques like palm prints, digital images and auxiliary biometric like Iris records.
