Current Affairs - National - Discussion

India became the first country in the world to issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID), capturing the facial biometric data of seafarers. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, MoS (I/C) Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers launched the project in New Delhi. He also handed over the new BSID cards to five Indian seafarers. The new facial biometric technology is a marked improvement over the two finger or iris based biometric data, with modern security features.