K400m to roll out NID – Kiragi
By CYRIL GARE
THE government’s national civil and identity registration (NCIR) project needs between K300-400 million to effectively roll it out in the country.
NCIR Registrar General, Dickson Kiragi revealed this when presenting 500 of the 2000 NID cards and 20 birth certificates for the New Hanover rubber farmers to the Agriculture and Livestock Minister, Benny Allen at the Central Government Building in Port Moresby on Wednesday.
Last month, the PNG Rubber Board sponsored a NCIR mobile team to New Hanover Island, New Ireland Province, where they processed 2000 registrations for the rubber farmers there.
Rubber Board chairman, Josephine Kenni said it is an initiative that will see all rubber farmers in PNG registered under the NCIR system so that proper farmer data and information is held for planning and management purposes.
The government started the NCIR project in 2015 with K250 million funding but that money has been absorbed in buying equipment and office establishments around the country.
Now that equipment and offices have been established, the need now is to roll out the actual registration of people nationwide.
Mr Kiragi said the team has visited 18 provinces, covering some 45 departments but the “responses were not good”. He did not elaborate.
He said the government (Cabinet) has decided to get public servants to register under the NCIR with a “no NID no pay” policy, adding that public servants will pay K200 for a NID card replacement if lost and K50 for user-fee.
Wednesday’s event saw DAL staff filling in NID registration forms, taking photos and finger prints where Mr Karagi and a NCIR mobile team presided over. It was a complimentary exercise funded by the Rubber Board.
Among them were DAL Minister, Benny Allen and his first and second Secretaries.
Mr Karagi thanked the Rubber Board for the “collaboration….”, adding “it made life a lot easier” for his team.
According to the National Planning and Implementation Minister, Richard Maru, K250 million was appropriated for the NID project in the country. To date, only 300,000 ID cards have been produced when that money was budgeted to cover the whole country.
Many were asking whether the NID project was a failure and what happened to this huge sum of money? Sunday Chronicle
Read more: http://www.pngfacts.com/44/post/2017/10/k400m-to-roll-out-nid-kiragi.html#ixzz4vWhoflkZ
THE government’s national civil and identity registration (NCIR) project needs between K300-400 million to effectively roll it out in the country.
NCIR Registrar General, Dickson Kiragi revealed this when presenting 500 of the 2000 NID cards and 20 birth certificates for the New Hanover rubber farmers to the Agriculture and Livestock Minister, Benny Allen at the Central Government Building in Port Moresby on Wednesday.
Last month, the PNG Rubber Board sponsored a NCIR mobile team to New Hanover Island, New Ireland Province, where they processed 2000 registrations for the rubber farmers there.
Rubber Board chairman, Josephine Kenni said it is an initiative that will see all rubber farmers in PNG registered under the NCIR system so that proper farmer data and information is held for planning and management purposes.
The government started the NCIR project in 2015 with K250 million funding but that money has been absorbed in buying equipment and office establishments around the country.
Now that equipment and offices have been established, the need now is to roll out the actual registration of people nationwide.
Mr Kiragi said the team has visited 18 provinces, covering some 45 departments but the “responses were not good”. He did not elaborate.
He said the government (Cabinet) has decided to get public servants to register under the NCIR with a “no NID no pay” policy, adding that public servants will pay K200 for a NID card replacement if lost and K50 for user-fee.
Wednesday’s event saw DAL staff filling in NID registration forms, taking photos and finger prints where Mr Karagi and a NCIR mobile team presided over. It was a complimentary exercise funded by the Rubber Board.
Among them were DAL Minister, Benny Allen and his first and second Secretaries.
Mr Karagi thanked the Rubber Board for the “collaboration….”, adding “it made life a lot easier” for his team.
According to the National Planning and Implementation Minister, Richard Maru, K250 million was appropriated for the NID project in the country. To date, only 300,000 ID cards have been produced when that money was budgeted to cover the whole country.
Many were asking whether the NID project was a failure and what happened to this huge sum of money? Sunday Chronicle
Read more: http://www.pngfacts.com/44/post/2017/10/k400m-to-roll-out-nid-kiragi.html#ixzz4vWhoflkZ
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