Senior Sri Lankan officials have confirmed a new enrolment process will begin for the country's planned launch of biometric eID cards will be launched this summer.Registration of Persons Department Commissioner General P. Viyani Gunathilake confirmed that the old laminated Identity Cards which were used since 1972 would be replaced with the smart IDs.The new biometric cards will require a new enrolment process, with the department planning to collect personal data of persons as a family unit and establish a national registry and a central database with bio data of all persons above 15 years.Their biometrics and photographs obtain will be collected according to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, he said.Gunathilake said, obtaining biometrics and photographs of persons would be completed by the end of June. As the second stage, the department is hoping to register each and every individual in the country in the database register.”For that the department is seeking the relevant legal authentications and later as the third step the Electronic National Identity card would be issued,” he said. The new Electronic ID, comprising security features against tampering, counterfeiting and forgery, will include the person's photograph, bio data, fingerprints and also the blood group.
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