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An official assists a young woman to get her iris scanned as part of the enrollment that is on its way in Naagaaram village, outskirts of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India. India is assigning each one of its 1.2 billion people a unique ID number based on digital finger prints and iris scan. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos
