The capture of biometrics for National Population Register in the country has started in one district each in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
This was revealed in a statement issued by Home Minister P Chidambaram who said the process is already in progress in Delhi, Manipur and Nagaland and in one district each of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Orissa, Puducherry and West Bengal.
Interestingly, the home minister broke the practice of holding his monthly press conference to brief the activities of his ministry and just circulated the report card to the journalists through email on Tuesday.
Ever since he took charge of the home ministry in December 2008, Chidambaram has been holding the press conferences regularly, mostly on the first day of every month, to highlight the achievements of his ministry.
Chidambaram, along with his cabinet colleagues Kapil Sibal and Pawan Kumar Bansal, had addressed a press conference on Monday giving the government's stand on Lokpal Bill.
The home minister, in his report, also admitted that a lot of his time was taken up by the meetings of the Joint Drafting Committee of the Lokpal Bill.
