By Susan C. Aro
TUBLAY, Benguet – The Philippine Statistics Authority is
pushing registration of all citizens of the country under the Philippine
Identification System (PhilSys) or National ID including differently-abled
persons and senior citizens.
PSA Undersecretary Dennis Claire Mapa bared this saying persons with disability and senior citizens who are not yet profiled and incapable of going to biometrics registration centers will be reached in their homes.
Mapa, who is also Civil Registrar General, announced this during his visit here in Barangay Caponga on June 17 to look into biometrics registration in the area.
PSA Undersecretary Dennis Claire Mapa bared this saying persons with disability and senior citizens who are not yet profiled and incapable of going to biometrics registration centers will be reached in their homes.
Mapa, who is also Civil Registrar General, announced this during his visit here in Barangay Caponga on June 17 to look into biometrics registration in the area.
The municipalities of
Tublay and Mankayan were the first towns in Benguet that that
implemented PhilSysregistration.
Mapa, in responding
to concern of the PWDs raised by Local Civil Registrar Ruth
Elyn Dino, said the same issue was raised in other areas
and the PSA is working to address
such including incapable senior citizens.
Site of house to house
strategies will be done in coordination with barangay officials for scheduling
which will push through by September this year, he said.
PSA will provide
knapsack biometrics registration kits which are lighter, movable and mobile so
these can be easily carried house-to-house, said Mapa.
Registrants’ biometric
information to be taken will be fingerprint biometrics, iris scans, and face
photographs.
“Our aim is that all
Filipinos will be registered with the national ID system and that no one will
be left behind,” Mapa said.
Under the PhilSys
program of the government, the national ID will be used as foundational proof
of identity for any government and private transaction, he said.
PSA-CAR director Villafe
Alibuyog and Benguet provincial director Imelda
Buyuccan accompanied Mapa during the site visit. – PIA
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