The Election Commission is making it mandatory for the National Identity card seekers to obtain their birth certificates first prior to their registration for NID.
Besides, transgender population that earlier registered in the voter list choosing their gender either as “man or as “woman” would now be able to list their names as voters with self-identity.
The commission has amended the procedures relating to this and sent the proposed amendment to the Law Ministry, EC acting Secretary Sirazul Islam said.
In the proposed registration, applicants must submit their birth registration certificates and the attested copies of PSC, JSC and SSC certificates with the form.
The lawmakers, elected representatives of local government body and other gazetted officers would be able to attest the papers.
The officials also said if anyone had more than one wife, he must attach his wives’ NID numbers with the form.
The commission would use the amendment from an NID to update the voter list in future, the EC officials said, adding that there was not virtually any difference between the proposed registration form and the existing one.
The National Identity Registration (Amendment) bill was passed in the parliament in 2013 keeping the provision for providing all citizens with NID cards.
But the commission is yet to start collecting information of those worth getting NID.
The proposed amendment will pave the way for the transgender community to register as voters using self-identity, added the EC officials.
There are around 10,000 transgendered people across the country.
