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Facial Biometric Data of Seafarers
August 29 , 2019
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- India has become the ‘first country in the world’ to issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID) capturing the facial biometric data of seafarers.
- Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh Mandaviya launched the project in New Delhi.
- Nine data collection centres have been set up at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Noida, Goa, New Mangalore, Kochi, Vizag and Kandla for the issue of BSID.
- The total number of existing Indian seafarers who will be required to be issued BSIDs is around 3,50,000.
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