The government has decided to issue NIDs, national identity cards to children right after they are born.
The unique number of birth certificates to be carried onwards as the NID number of newborns.
The move comes following the agreement of the draft law titled “National Identity Registration Law 2022.”
A Cabinet Division meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Dhaka on Monday, 10 October, approved the law. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting.
As per the new rules, the home ministry’s Security Service Division, from now on, distribute NIDs instead of the Election Commission (EC).
Discussing with the press, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam, said, “NIDs will be provided to children right after they are born. The birth certificate and NID number shall be the same.”
“Besides, with the new rules, Security Service Division to issue NIDs instead of the EC,” he added.
