Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 1085 Wed. June 20, 2007  
   
Letters to Editor


Voter ID to contain corruption


As we know that the present government is serious about rooting out corruption from society, I would like to suggest the following steps:

a. While preparing the voter ID card, the information of the individual should be recorded in the database. This information, if possible, can be connected with a network across the country. This will prevent double-entry by any individual.

b. The voter card should have a magnetic swap strip like ATM card or should have barcode by which the voter can be checked and identified from anywhere.

c. The database may include the name of the applicant, names of parents and spouse, date of birth, address, occupation, income range, income source and some more material things. This information can be used by the NBR, police and the ACC. This will help the government to fight corruption.

d. We have lots of young students, skilled unemployed people, whom we can utilise to prepare the database software, computer networking around the country. I agree it may not be possible to get the network around the villages but at least up to the thana level we can do it.

If we don't use the computer and information technology, we can't succeed.