India, May 30 -- Following the rise of cases involving fake identity cards, the Maharashtra government is set to provide digital smart cards to all policemen of the Mumbai police commissionerate. The state home department passed an order on Thursday approving four crore for this transition.

The Mumbai police commissioner had requested the state government to allow them to shift to digital smart cards and a government resolution issued by the state home department said that the allotted sum was to "make digital smart cards for all the employees in the police force, right from police officers to police constables."

According to the order, there are 51,308 posts in the entire police force and they all use printed cards, which are easy to f...