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MADIKERI: To ensure flood victims are not denied relief for lack of identity papers, the revenue department has launched Aadhaar centres in relief camps across the district. “Our staff are using thumb impressions to re-issue Aadhaar cards. Residents are being issued printouts of Aadhaar cards by verifying their biometric details on the spot.Most of the flood- and landslide-affected families reached relief centres in a state of panic and had no time to collect their documents. No other documents is required for this,” principal secretary of the revenue department Gangaram Baderiya said.“These centres have been set up in all relief camps. The first such Aadhaar centre was set up in Jodupala, a border village of the district..