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The investment policy of the project for the production, concession and management of citizen IDs of the Ministry of Public Security was approved by the Prime Minister through Decision 1368.
The above information was delivered by General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, at the meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Population Database project and the Production Project, for the issuance and management of citizen identity. September 3 in the afternoon.
In accordance with this policy, the project will be implemented synchronously with the National Population Database project, which is expected to operate in early 2021.
The citizen identification card with barcode currently contains about 20 pieces of information. Image: Phuong Son
According to Major General To Van Hue, Chief of the Police Administration for the Administration of Social Order, the Citizen Identification Project is estimated at VND 2.8 billion, of which the assembly of electronic chips is a small part of the total .
When implementing the project, the Ministry of Public Security should collect information fields related to citizenship to manage personal and domiciliary searches; additional image data, biometrics. The Ministry of Public Security estimates that the cost of chip cards is 10,000 to 20,000 VND more expensive than barcode cards. However, according to General Hue, the two projects of the National Population Database and the Citizen Identification Project, which are carried out in parallel, will save a lot of budget due to the exchange of technical infrastructure and servers. , line …
The Ministry of Public Security began to issue barcode cards from 2016, until now, 16 provinces and cities have infrastructure to issue more than 16 million cards. In the rest of the provinces, citizens use 9 and 12-digit identifications.
When the project is approved, provinces and cities across the country will issue cards with a synchronous electronic chip and by July 2021 the country will issue 50 million cards.
Explaining the impossibility of issuing identity cards with electronic chips at the beginning instead of barcodes to avoid waste in the construction of infrastructure, said the representative of the Ministry of Public Security, since 2012 when the card construction project began. Citizen identity, the Ministry has raised this problem, but at that time electronic chips were still expensive, production technology was limited.
“Until now, national companies can be proactive in technology and production costs are cheaper,” said the representative of the Ministry of Public Security.
