An estimated 40 million people sans National ID card will be placed on a new platform -- Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) -- to ensure that public-service delivery reaches all for parity's sake.
This was stated by Finance Minister AMA Muhith Tuesday at a function in Dhaka.
The CRVS is based on a Unique ID (UID) system and linked with service-delivery processes so that people registered with it could tap different public services.
"Introduction of National ID Card back in 2008 already made a big difference in ensuring service delivery in the country," he said while speaking at the inauguration of an international conference on 'Civil Registration and Vital Statistics' in Dhaka.
"However, the next course of action should be to reach those 40 million who are yet to get a National ID Card," the Finance Minister added.
Starting from 2008, the Election Commission has led the NID scheme under which all Bangladeshis who are 18 years of age or older are brought under a central Biometric Database and provided with a National ID Card.
Later in 2016, the EC introduced Smart National Identity Card which involves a type of integrated circuit card (ICC), also known as a "chip card". Banking, passport details, driving licences, trade licences, tax payments, and share trading are among the 22 other services that can be accessed through the cards, with more to follow.
Focusing on the CRVS scheme led by the Cabinet Division of the government, the Finance Minister observed that such scheme is in line with the country's vision to deliver public services to all and to leave no one behind.
"However, it is important to take the message to the ordinary people to ensure that the benefit of the scheme reaches the targeted beneficiaries," he said.
Civil registration and vital statistics or CRVS is a continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal recording of the occurrences and characteristics of vital events of the population in accordance with the law.
A well-functioning CRVS system registers all births and deaths, issues birth and death certificates, and compiles and disseminates vital statistics, including cause-of-death information. It may also record marriages and divorces.
Bangladesh is currently working to establish a robust and effective CRVS process based on the Unique ID (UID) system and linked with service-delivery processes.
CRVS originally included six components: birth, death, marriage, divorce, adoption, and cause of death. Academic enrolment and migration have also been added as major components to Bangladesh CRVS.
In addition, the country is also developing an Integrated Service Delivery Platform as part of CRVS-implementation plan, officials informed at the conference.
This will be linked with the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) for generation of Vital Statistics (VS) and with other service-delivery processes, especially the Social Protection Programmes. This model is called CRVS++.
"The function of CRVS scheme is such as it serves a number of goals that come under SDGs," said Philip W Setel, Vice President of Vital Strategies of the United States.
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam and Secretary for Coordination and Reforms of the Cabinet Division N M Zeaul Alam also spoke on the occasion.
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