The department said the e-NIC concept was brought forward by the government due to security concerns. But it was still being discussed and had to be finalized.
“There definitely will be a change from the manual NIC to the digintal ones soon,” DRP Commissioner General, Jagath P. Wijeweera said. He explained that the LTTE and other groups had found it easy to forge the NIC during the war due to it being manually handled.
Wijeweera explained that with the new e-NIC that would be implemented soon, and they hoped to see a reduction in the number of forged NIC’s. He also said that the new system will be under the Department for Registrations of Persons with Lanka Logistics facilitating the technicalities. However, Mr. Wijeweera said that decisions as to what the NIC will look like or the exact date of implementation had not been decided.
“To digitalize the identity card has now become a national necessity and the government will be looking forward to its implementation as soon as possible and we are hoping to finalize it by 2012,” he said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Nabeela Hussain
Quelle/Source: Daily Mirror, 26.01.2011
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