The Yangon regional government has surveyed tens of thousands of squatters using fingerprint scanners and facial recognition technology as part of a resettlement plan to address the city’s housing crisis.
Surveyors have visited almost 80,000 households across seven townships with the help of foreign experts and NGOs, officials said.
But Colonel Tin Aung Tun, the regional minister for Security and Border Affairs, says the survey is not yet finished.
“We have completed 70.54 percent of the survey,” he said. The survey,which started in September last year, will be expanded soon to cover another five townships.
Colonel Tin Aung Tun added that the count may help to identify people who are not genuine squatters, but have moved to an area in the hope of duping the government into giving them cheap or free accommodation.
“After finishing the whole survey, we will double check with the scrutiny board because there may be some fake squatters. We will take action against them,” he said. Facial recognition and fingerprint technology.
To be deemed genuine squatters, participants in the survey have to have been living in their residences since before March 25th last year.
Source: Myanmar Business Today