The Tamil Nadu government is currently inviting bids for a partner to develop and deploy the State Family Database (SFDB), a mammoth e-governance project announced in January 2019.

The database will help TAHDCO identify and keep track of possible beneficiaries without them having to approach the corporation. Manually, it has been able to register only around 74,000 temporary ...

Such a database would pool wildlife crime data, information, and intelligence from various law enforcement agencies, facilitating near real-time sharing and coordinated action.