The Election Commission has planned to provide the under-18-year-old citizens with National Identity Cards (NIDs) in the country.
EC Secretary Sirajul Islam said they recently asked the National Identity Card Wing to prepare and present proposals before them about it. The final decision however would be taken about this after vetting their proposals, he said.
Seeking anonymity, a few NID officials said they were planning to prepare two proposals – one for collecting information of those who are more than 15 years old and those who participated in Junior School Certificate exams four years ago.
Parliament had passed a law law keeping the provision to provide NIDs to all citizens on October 6 last year.
