New Delhi: The much-hyped biometric system for drivers of yellow-top taxis at IGI airport has been undergoing trials at Terminal 3 last week: for the nth time in the four years since its conception. It is still plagued with several errors, claim taxi drivers. Traffic police say it would take another week to rectify the problems with the system, after which it will become operational; but the drivers are not buying this argument. They say there are several issues with the system and the operating agencies are completely clueless.
The biometric system is supposed to provide security to passengers. But on Thursday, at least between 5 pm and 5.30 pm when a TOI team was present at the spot, none of the taxi drivers was required to give their thumb impression for verification.
The drivers and booth operators said the system started off with thumb impressions being taken along with card swipe, but due to some problem, only ID cards had to be swiped to get entry into the taxi lane since the past two days.
29/10/12 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India
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The biometric system is supposed to provide security to passengers. But on Thursday, at least between 5 pm and 5.30 pm when a TOI team was present at the spot, none of the taxi drivers was required to give their thumb impression for verification.
The drivers and booth operators said the system started off with thumb impressions being taken along with card swipe, but due to some problem, only ID cards had to be swiped to get entry into the taxi lane since the past two days.
29/10/12 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India
