Pilot project on NID card plus voter list starts June 10
Thursday, 24 May 2007
The Election Commission (EC) starts a three-week pilot project June 10 to prepare the model of National Identity (NID) card plus voter list with photograph, on which now hinges the fate of all polls in the country, reports UNB.
An amount of Tk 2.5 million will be spent on the spadework under the pilot scheme being undertaken in Sripur municipality in Gazipur district, the EC disclosed Wednesday.
"Sixteen to twenty units will work there… The Voter Registration Centres (VRCs) will be set up at the fixed polling stations of the local government elections," Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain told reporters at his office on the day.
As per EC statistics, there were 16 polling stations at the time of municipal election of 2002 and around 34,000 voters were calculated in 2006 in the Sripur municipality. The EC earlier had said there would be four personnel in each group dealing with the field-level work on the NID-plus-voter-list project.
Sakhawat said during the pilot project, enumerators would go door to door to distribute hard copies of voter-information form, each having a specific serial number. The voters would come to the concerned Voter Registration Centres next day with the filled-out forms and take part in data entry and photographing.
The collected data and photographs would be taken to the upazila level to upload, get printed copy of the NID card
An amount of Tk 2.5 million will be spent on the spadework under the pilot scheme being undertaken in Sripur municipality in Gazipur district, the EC disclosed Wednesday.
"Sixteen to twenty units will work there… The Voter Registration Centres (VRCs) will be set up at the fixed polling stations of the local government elections," Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain told reporters at his office on the day.
As per EC statistics, there were 16 polling stations at the time of municipal election of 2002 and around 34,000 voters were calculated in 2006 in the Sripur municipality. The EC earlier had said there would be four personnel in each group dealing with the field-level work on the NID-plus-voter-list project.
Sakhawat said during the pilot project, enumerators would go door to door to distribute hard copies of voter-information form, each having a specific serial number. The voters would come to the concerned Voter Registration Centres next day with the filled-out forms and take part in data entry and photographing.
The collected data and photographs would be taken to the upazila level to upload, get printed copy of the NID card