Biometrics for beggars
By Shalini Singh

Think you have a dead end BPO job putting on a fake name Samantha and an equally fake American accent patiently trying not to scream at a California-based client:  “You have a credit problem.  Learn to manage your money better”.

Well, count your blessings!  You could be working for a Delhi Government Call Centre set up with a toll free number for people to report beggars.

iGovernment, which is India’s first interactive web platform for knowledge sharing about Good Governance, is reporting

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The Government of Delhi has installed biometric machines at Sewa Kutir Complex— a beggar home—located in Kingsway Camp area of the city to identify repeat offenders.

The machine will also update and consolidate the record of apprehended beggars and maintain a dossier of each arrested beggar. The step has been taken in view of the beggars often changing their names to hoodwink anti-begging teams by posing as first-time offenders.
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The Delhi Government has named its call centre ‘Beggary Control Room’

This is the new India.  Biometrics and call centres are being used to stop beggars.