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MANILA, Philippines – Pre-registration of the national ID will begin next month to facilitate the distribution of government assistance, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Tuesday.
“At our last Philsys meeting, it was mentioned that we will proceed to implement our pre-registration this first week of October. Tuloy tuloy na ito until we can initially register 5 million pre-registrants and 5 million registrants by the end of the year, ”said DILG spokesperson and undersecretary Jonathan Malaya in an online #AskNEDA briefing when asked for comment on national identification. system pre-registration.
President Rodrigo Duterte approved the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys Act), or Republic Act No. 11055, in August 2018. The PhilSys Act aims to harmonize and integrate various government IDs by creating a single system of national identification.
The undersecretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Rosemarie Edillon, explained that the pre-registration means that they will collect the applicant’s information on social demographics.
“What we will be doing is pre-registration. Registration in Hindi pa yung. So a pre-registration of yung? What we are going to do is just collect information on social demographics, so that fingerprints or iris scan will show because collecting this biometric information will mean that people will go to the testing centers for the congregation to delikado magkakaroon ng ” he said during the same press conference.
Edillon said pre-registration will take place in 32 provinces with a low incidence of active COVID-19 cases to ensure the infection does not worsen.
“With respect to 32 provinces, we are looking at those with low incidence or low number of active COVID-19 cases because we want this initiative to be safe for the public for those who want people to register with PSA (Philippine Statistics Authority ) personal, ”he said.
Malaya identified the 32 provinces as:
Ilocos South
The Union
Pangasinan
Cagayan
Isabella
Bataan
Bulacan
New Ecija
Pampanga
Tarlac
Zambales
Batangas
Cavita
lagoon
Quezon
Rizal
Colonel,
Camarines Sur
Masbate
Old
Capiz
Iloilo
Negros Occidental
Bohol
Zebu
Oriental Negros
Leyte
Compostela Valley
Davao del Norte
Davao del Sur
Davao Occidental
Tawi tawi
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