To ensure reliability, a technical sub-group was formed to collect Indian fingerprints and analyse the quality. Over 250,000 fingerprints from 25,000 persons were sourced from Delhi, UP, Bihar and Odisha – nearly all from rural regions using different capture devices and through different operational processes. Analysis showed ‘it was possible to obtain fingerprint quality as good as seen in developed countries, provided operational procedures were followed and good quality devices were used’. The report also cautioned that ‘accuracy drops precipitously if attention is not given to operational
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