The BBC's Prachi Pinglay sees the launch of India's first Unique Identity cards in the remote village of Tembhli in the state of Maharashtra.
Inside India's first 'Unique Identity' village
Using the latest biometric technology including an iris scan, over the next five years the cards will log details of India's population of more than one billion people on a central database.
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