Finger Prints Scanners upgraded for safe land registration in Tamil Nadu 

The state registration department has procured 1,164 state-of-the-art level 1 fringerprints scanners to safeguard against fraudulent land registrations using cloned fingerprints. It has also taken measures to prevent financial fraud through Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) by stealing fingerprints from sale deeds. Across the state every day, on average, 15,000 documents are registered and 50,000 fingerprints are authenticated in the 582 sub-registrar offices under the state registration department. The department has been using fingerprint scanners along with Aadhaar authentication and EKYC while registering documents. For those whose fingerprints are not registered, Aadhaar verification will be done," said a senior registration department officials. The department had been using Level 0 scanners. To enhance security levels of fingerprint-based authentication transactions, UIDAI made it mandatory to use L1 compliant fingerprint authentication registered devices in the Aadhaar authentication ecosystem. The L1 scanners have better encryption and are secure. The important aspect is the fingerprint liveliness security feature. This will reveal if the fingerprint has been taken from a person who is alive or cloned. Property consultants point out that this a good move. "This will prevent registration of unclaimed property using forged documents. This will protect buyers, but this should be monitored properly, Ramprabhu, CMDA and DTCP committee chairman, Builders Association of India (BAI). 
 

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