Jumbangla Desk: Election Commission (EC) wants QR code (quick response) on birth certificate, civil certificate and marriage certificate to provide National Identity Card (NID) correction service more easily. The agency believes that if QR codes are installed in these documents, it is possible to prevent fraud in new voters and NID correction.
Many submit fake birth certificates to get NID, EC officials said. In this, the concerned people register multiple births with the help of fraud. Again, the citizenship certificate is also found to be fake. Apart from this, complications arise with the names of husband and wife. Especially those who have multiple marriages or get divorced, this irony arises during the revision of NID. As the services are delayed, the citizens are also deprived of the desired services.
Regional Election Officers raised the issues in a recent meeting. They said that because a person has multiple birth certificates, it is difficult to provide national identity card services. Citizenship certificates or identity cards or inheritance certificates etc. issued by public representatives cannot be verified as they do not contain QR codes. Again there needs to be an online system for verifying the correctness of Nikahnama or Talaqnama. Online passport information verification is also required. If these credentials can be verified online, it will be easier to provide NID correction services.
After discussion it was decided to take appropriate initiative in the meeting. Then EC Secretary Shafiul Azim NID Director General. Mahbub Alam gave written instructions to Talukdar to take appropriate action. In this case, written to the concerned authorities and asked to implement the issues.
In the directive, the EC Secretary said, measures should be taken to prevent having multiple birth certificates, to obtain citizenship certificates with QR codes, to verify the correctness of Nikahanama or Talaknama online and to send letters to the concerned persons to verify passport information online. Apart from this, he asked to inform the applicant which office to contact for further action after determining the category (type of complexity) of the application for amendment of National Identity Card through a short message on the mobile phone. On the other hand, the Election Commission has taken the initiative of providing all kinds of services including national identity card related services, taking the initiative to quickly distribute the stored undelivered smart carts in the field offices, arranging the seating of the service recipients in each office and forming a team in each office to make the service delivery of the service recipients easy and hassle-free. EC Secretary instructed to inform the Secretariat.
It is known that currently 665 thousand 516 NID applications are pending in ten electoral regions at field level . Among them, two lakh 68 thousand 294 applications remain incomplete in various categories. And there are 377,222 pending applications related to information or transaction complications, many of them have problems with birth registration, citizenship certificate and Nikahnama or Talaknama documents.
