Sri Lanka plans to begin issuing biometric identity cards to citizens of the island country this month, said the Commissioner General of the Department of Registration of Persons, R.M.S. Sarath Kumara.
The card will include the individual’s fingerprints and will have security features to prevent tampering, counterfeiting and forging, confirming to relevant international standards. All applications will be scanned and details will be computerised following a verification process before the card is printed, Kumara informed.
He shared that the new system will enable better coordination between government departments.
The identity cards will be printed in both the locally spoken languages - Sinhala and Tamil.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 11.02.2014
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