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IN A first for any central welfare scheme, the government Thursday rolled out a face authentification feature in the PM-Kisan app, which will enable beneficiary farmers to complete their e-KYC process by just scanning their face on mobile phones instead of using one-time password or fingerprints...
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched the app feature at an event, which was attended by Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary, Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja, Additional Secretary Pramod Kumar Meherda and senior officials from the states...
Sharing details of the new feature, Meherda said, PM-Kisan scheme has become the first scheme of the government to do e-KYC through facial authentication mobile app..
Since then, e-KYC of 3 lakh farmers has been done successfully, he said.. Until now, e-KYC of the PM-Kisan beneficiaries used to be done through either biometrics at a designated centre or one-time passwords sent to mobile phone numbers linked with Aadhaar...
However, during the e-KYC exercise, officials found many instances when farmers mobile numbers were not linked to Aadhaar due to which the process could not be completed, said an official..
