A large number of aged pensioners are doing the rounds of the Mee Seva centres s and struggling to show that they are ‘alive’ to get their pension without a break.
This entails getting their thumb impressions screened by a biometric device once in six months.
Most elderly persons’ thumbs were not getting screened biometrically as the impressions were blurred. The officials concerned have been taking an impression iris of elderly persons whose thumb impressions did not come out properly. The pension amount then gets transferred to their bank accounts.
Gone Gangamma of Neeratiwada of Tirpelli in Adilabad town who visited the Mee Seva at Adilabad collectorate to have her thumb impression taken found both thumbs left blurred impressions.
The screened image had no sharpness. She said she would have to return to the Mee Seva centre to get her iris photographed on July1, a procedure that would have to be repeated every six months.
M. Mohan, the computer operator at Mee Seva centre, said that getting a clear impression of elderly people’s thumbs was a common problem. He said that they generally tried to capture the right or left thumb impressions first and if they could not succeed, they later tried to take impressions of the middle, right and left fingers both the hands.
Pensioners including old age, an elderly widow, toddy tappers, disabled and beedi rolling labourers thronged the Mee Seva centres in large numbers to get their thumb impressions linked with their Aadhaar card numbers.
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