Government & Public Sector

Industrial requirements:
Accurate data is the backbone of good Governance. Fragmented, inconsistent data of citizens

• affects the ability to appropriately serve constituents,
• delays time to implement new welfare programs and
  launch new schemes
• creates integration inefficiencies across processes, and
• limits productivity across citizen service functions.

There seems to be no common master data of citizens in India. Every department/ministry has its own database and often the information of the same citizen is recorded differently in each of these databases. Though UID is a step forward in the direction of creating a citizens database, It is associated with the biometric identity of the person. In the government there is always a need of comparing different databases on the basis of demographic and householding information for the purpose of launching targeted welfare programs and new schemes . Moreover for law enforcement, the profiling search is often on the demographic parameters rather than on a unique identity.

Therefore it is extremely important to have accurate data of citizens in the databases of the respective departments, and creating a unique set of citizens data is challenge owing to the gigantic volumes and poor data quality. There are no defined standards for writing names and addresses. Names and addresses are subject to variations and transcription errors. This leads to multiple enrollments of the same citizen to the program causing huge loss to exchequer.Existing technologies require very large hardware and unpredictable outcome due to limitations of scalability.

We give below few examples of uses cases in some departments where in our technology finds relevance.

Public Distributions Systems (PDS)- Civil Supplies Department

• Deduplication of Ration Cards to remove duplicate BPL cards and identifying ineligible BPL cards by comparing with other databases such as RTA database, govt employee database, electricity database etc.

Election commission

• Deduplication of Electoral Rolls.

Health department

• Allotment for Health and Insurance Cards.

Civic Administration Department (Municipal Department)

• Property tax administration. Identifying tax evaders by comparing with other databases like Electricity Department database, Water Board database etc.
• Unified billing system for serving bills for all the utilities in a single bill.

Transport Department

• Enrollment for driving license. Detecting duplicate licenses. Interfacing with other with other departments like police department for Quick and accurate search on License, based just on name and any other demographic information .Registration of second and subsequent vehicle on the owners name for enhanced taxation.

Immigration Department

• During immigration and transit Check , as well as matching of flying passengers list with various databases.

Police Department

• Crime Records Search. Criminal Profile tracing relatives / associates. Linking with other departments like Passport Department, Immigration Department etc.

Commercial Tax Department

• Allotment of unique TIN number. Tracking Directors details across various TINs.

Posidex Solutions
Posidex solutions can help the government departments to clean and maintain unique data of citizens within their databases and achieve unprecedented efficiencies.

Posidex worked with the department of Income Tax India, to build a 360 degree tax payer's profiling solution. This solution helps the investigation wing of the department to trace relations/associations (family profiling) with the taxpayer and track the transactions of each taxpayer on basis of name and address.This solution increases the effectiveness of the investigation units of the Income Tax Department to detect tax evasion even in the absensce of PAN .This is one of the largest data matching exercise deployed by any government agency in India. Posidex solution for the Income Tax Department won the PrimeMinister's award to the department for excellence in administration.

Posidex's sevices were taken by the primary vendor during the process of weeding out the duplicate BPL cards by the Civil Supplies Department of Andhra Pradesh State in India.Posidex was able to complete the job of deduplication of 80 million records based on demographics in couple of weeks time on few entry level servers using its innovative and proprietary technology.Perhaps for the first time, such large scale deduplication exercise has been carried out in India at one single instance and the limitations of technology for such a purpose have been overcome in such a cost effective way. The exercise and the initiative of the government would allow better utilization of government subsidy and help more inclusive growth by identifying genuine beneficiaries.