It's not a table or chair, I picked it up! More than ten crore people have national identity cards. Citizens now need national identity cards for about 22 types of work in the country
Why the Election Commission is opposed to taking NID services to the Ministry of Home Affairs
If you want to take NID activities, you have to sit in dialogue: CEC
There will be no complication in NID service when it comes to Home Ministry: Asaduzzaman
If you want to take NID activities, you have to sit in dialogue. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said, National Identity Card (NID) activities are not table-chair, which I took away. For this we have to sit in dialogue.
He was speaking to reporters after inaugurating a medical camp at the Election Training Institute (ETI) in the capital on Wednesday. The government has recently directed the EC to hand over NID activities including manpower to the security department of the home ministry.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said at a function at the old central jail that the government has decided to bring NID activities in place. The job of the Election Commission is to list voters.
You will get all kinds of help from NID at the Election Commission to make that list. So there is no question of lack of coordination. The CEC said the NID division is a much larger institution. How to take it or not, it must be discussed. It's not a table or chair that I picked up.
There will be no complication in NID service when it comes to Home Ministry: Asaduzzaman
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has assured that there will be no complication with the National Identity Card (NID) service if it comes under the Home Ministry. He also commented that the NID service is coming to the right place now.
The Election Commission is a constitutional body. According to Article 116 (4) of the Constitution of Bangladesh, ‘the Election Commission shall be independent in the discharge of its duties and shall be subject only to this Constitution and the law.
The reason for establishing the Commission as a constitutionally independent body is so that it can carry out its responsibilities under Article 119 of the Constitution without any influence, one of which is the preparation of the voter list for the parliamentary elections.
There has been a long-running controversy in Bangladesh over voter lists. Many remember that during the EC headed by Justice Aziz, there were allegations of 12 million 'fake' voters in the voter list, the main reason being that the same person was a voter in multiple areas.
The matter came to a head and eventually it reached the Supreme Court. Later Dr. The illustrated voter list was compiled in 2008 under the supervision of the Shamsul Huda Commission, with the help of donors and at the initiative of the army.
The American company audited the opinion that it is almost accurate,
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said the commission should be consulted before taking control of the National Identity Card Service from the Election Commission to the Home Ministry, as they felt it would be a problem for them if it fell out of the hands of the Election Commission.
The voter list, meanwhile, was audited by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IEFS), a well-known American organization, which found it to be almost accurate.
Gathered praise. In fact, the pictorial voter list has become a source of pride for our entire nation. The Election Commission has been expressing their dissatisfaction with the control of NID for the last one month.
'Government has started work'
However, in the meantime, the government has started the initial activities to amend the National Identity Card Act and bring it under the control of the Security Services Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
NID card or national identity card is required to prove citizenship of Bangladesh and to avail various citizenship benefits
NID card or national identity card is required to prove citizenship of Bangladesh and to avail various citizenship benefits
A full proposal on how the process will work will be sent to the Cabinet Division. At the same time, it has been asked to take steps to transfer the existing infrastructure and manpower from the Election Commission to the security department for conducting the registration of national identity cards.
The government has already sent a letter to the Election Commission informing it of its decision.
However, the commission has repeatedly opposed such initiatives of the government, claiming that it is reasonable to keep NID in their hands.
What is the reason for the objection of the Election Commission?
But why is the commission objecting to the government taking over a government activity from the Election Commission? In response to such a question, Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam told BBC Bangla that they think that people will be harmed if the huge task of national identity card is renewed.
"The National Identity Card is made by collecting some data as a by-product of the voter list. We made the people in our Election Commission, we did not recruit new ones.
Skills - technical and managerial - I don't think that will happen overnight. If not, the beneficiaries will be in trouble. "
In 2007, during the military-backed caretaker government, plans were made to create voter ID cards as part of a voter list with photographs in response to demands from political parties. In the same process, national identity card was made instead of voter identity card.
In Bangladesh At the moment, more than ten crore people have national identity cards. Citizens need national identity cards for about 22 types of work in the country now. The Election Commission is working to create, distribute or amend national identity cards.
But if the government wants to provide this service, why is the commission preventing it, or why is it opposing it? In response to such a question, Mr. Islam said that they are not protesting but want to make it clear that it is not a realistic idea to remove the huge workload of identity cards from where it is going.
"We are not opposing. We are presenting the reality. The manpower, skills and technical facilities required to manage it cannot be created in a day or in a short time."
Officials from the concerned department of the Home Ministry declined to comment on the analysis of these interpretations by the Election Commission.
Although the Election Commission will compile the voter list and again use the database for national identity cards, many are skeptical that the two separate bodies will create a lack of coordination.
There is no possibility of lack of coordination, says the Home Ministry
However, in response to a question on the issue after a function in Dhaka, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said there would be no complications with the service or any lack of coordination with the Election Commission if it came under his ministry.
"For good reason, the government has instructed us to come to the right place. The job of the Election Commission is usually to compile the voter list. They will get whatever help they can get from it. So there is no question of incoherence."
But whatever the Home Ministry says - the Election Commission says it will do its best to keep the NID in the hands of the Commission even during discussions at the secretary level on the removal process. Sources, BBC
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