He said the government was preparing a biometric database for MGNREGA labourers which would be helpful in making payments to them and removing any delays. He hoped it would reduce any delays in payments, discrimination and fake master-rolls.Fraud is perhaps the greatest challenge to governmental efforts to help the world's poor. If the broader society perceives that a program designed to lift the vulnerable serves primarily as an opportunity for graft and corruption, it will not support the program.
Biometric identity management systems can help build confidence that resources devoted to a worthy cause are not contributing to the problems they are meant to address.
