After its people, India now wants its cows and buffaloes to have a unique numerical identity.。
The government has rolled out an extensive project, wherein 100,000 technicians have set out to tag 88 million cattle with a 12-digit unique identification number, the。 Economic Times。Economic Times 。
reported.。SEE ALSO:Inside India's plan to substitute cash with its citizen's fingerprints 。
It will work just like the Aadhar system, where citizens are marked with unique numbers and the identification is used in major government transactions.。
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Once the tag is affixed inside the ears of the cattle, technicians will reportedly use a tablet to update the number in an online database, providing the cattle owner with an "animal health card" to track all activities.。
Every detail from breeding to deworming, along with the owner's data, will be captured in the card. 。
Now it seems they'll be replicating that for the cattle population as well.。