Officials at the Home Ministry said the move will not only help maintain up-to-date data of citizenship certificates but also facilitate introducing National Identity Card in the due course.
“We will be in a position to give carbon copy of lost or stolen citizenship certificates issued from anywhere in the country once we complete computerization of these vital data,” said Under Secretary Pralhad Pokharel, who heads E-governance Section at the ministry.
The Home Ministry has been maintaining manual record of various vital data including citizenship certificates. The obsolete method of maintaining the record runs the risk of loosing the data due to worms as well as wear and tear with time.
Under Secretary Pokharel said they plan to start computerize the data of citizenship certificates from all 75 DAOs, five Regional Administration Offices (RAOs), and two Area Administration Offices including in Butwal and Dharan ´soon´. “We have already procured computers, printers, scanners and cameras. We will soon dispatch them to the offices concerned to expedite the work,” he said.
The ministry has planned to provide two computers, two Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) sets for power supply, one scanner, one camera, one network printer and one normal printer each to DAOs, RAOs and Area Police Administration Offices to carry out computerization of citizenship certificates.
Officials said the biggest challenge they face now to implement the plan is lack of technical manpower with knowledge of computer operation at the local level offices. Keeping in view of the challenge, the ministry recently organized a computer training workshop for the officials of all these DAOs, RAOs and Area Administration Offices in Kathmandu.
Around 70 officials - one each from these offices - participated in the training. Officials believe that those taking part in the training can now maintain computerized record by using software the ministry has developed for the purpose.
Pokharel said the ministry has made a provision to allow offices concerned to hire an IT professional to help address any problem they face in executing the task. “We expect to expedite computerization of the data of citizenship certificates,” he said.
The ministry is planning to issue National Identity Card based on the data collected by Election Commission during the collection of voters´ registration with voters´ photographs and biometrics in the first phase. Remaining others will be issued the Card on the basis of citizenship certificates.
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Quelle/Source: Republica, 07.07.2011
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