The photo identificatikon mess ups in the Smart Family cards being issued by the Tamilnadu civil supplies department has only increased by the day.
The digitizing of PDS services has gone awry as photo identify of the beneficiary is often miscarried leading to confusion in the beneficiaries.
If it was actor Kajal Agarwal who occupied the photo space of a family card of one Saroja, an old woman of Omalur near Salem, another family card holder near Tiruppur was shocked to find, Lord Vinayakar photo in the smart card issued to her family in the space allotted for family head's photo.
Today, it is the turn of Sultan Khader Rowther, who received the smart family card with the photo of national flag, printed on it. The family card holder was shocked.
A couple of days back Makesh Chinnasamy of Posinaikenhalli, in Dharmapuri was shocked to find the photo of a sandal, as family head in the smart card issued to him and another family card holder was given a card with a photo of a dog printed on it.
"Recurrent incidences of such mistakes and mess ups only point to that there is no supervising authority to check and recheck the smart family cards before it was issued to the public" say public watchers.
The digitizing of PDS services has gone awry as photo identify of the beneficiary is often miscarried leading to confusion in the beneficiaries.
If it was actor Kajal Agarwal who occupied the photo space of a family card of one Saroja, an old woman of Omalur near Salem, another family card holder near Tiruppur was shocked to find, Lord Vinayakar photo in the smart card issued to her family in the space allotted for family head's photo.
Today, it is the turn of Sultan Khader Rowther, who received the smart family card with the photo of national flag, printed on it. The family card holder was shocked.
A couple of days back Makesh Chinnasamy of Posinaikenhalli, in Dharmapuri was shocked to find the photo of a sandal, as family head in the smart card issued to him and another family card holder was given a card with a photo of a dog printed on it.
"Recurrent incidences of such mistakes and mess ups only point to that there is no supervising authority to check and recheck the smart family cards before it was issued to the public" say public watchers.