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New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is planning to introduce face authentication to mark attendance of workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) from early next year, ThePrint has learnt...
However, the ministry plans to keep attendance by facial recognition optional...
The Union Rural Development Ministry has asked all state governments and Union territories to test the new feature and prepare for its implementation, two senior ministry officials said, adding that the face authentication or recognition feature has been included in the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app...
One of the biggest challenges in the implementation of the MGNREGS, ministry officials said, has been ensuring that the workers present at a job site are genuine beneficiaries...
Explaining the process, the official said each workers face authentication with UIDAI data has been done through a mobile app suggested by the ministry...
