Nepal To Assign Digital IDs At Birth, Issues Biometric Smart Card

The following report is by The Kathmandu Post:

The Department of National ID and Civil Registration has started issuing such digital numbers to pave the way for wider adoption of the national identity cards that could replace citizenship certificates in the future.

The national ID is a federal identity card issued by the Department of National ID and Civil Registration with a unique number assigned to each person. Nepali citizens can obtain the cards based on their biometric and demographic data. The card features a unique number, photo, personal information and the bearer’s fingerprints.

The department claims that the biometric smart card will have several uses and that officials can read it using secure terminals.

To ensure eligibility for the national ID, the government will identify a Nepali by a unique number created during birth registration at the ward level, according to department officials.

We have been informally providing national ID numbers to people at their birth registration across the country for the past two months. Such numbers are being given to around 2,000 people a day.

Said Mukesh Kumar Keshar, director at the Department of National ID and Civil Registration.

The department will formally launch this plan within a few weeks.

When a person’s identity is created from early childhood, it will be easier for such persons to get government documents, including the national ID.

He added

Along with the initiative, the government plans to speed up the national ID card distribution.

The government issued the national ID card in 2018. In November that year, then-home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa launched the distribution of national identity cards in Panchthar district by handing over the first card to the 101-year-old Bhagawati Devi Bhandari of Phidim Municipality-4. It was done as part of a pilot programme funded by the Asian Development Bank to distribute digital identification cards in the eastern district and for the Singha Durbar staff.

Now the department says it has already enrolled 14.1 million people to the national ID database, completing the process for over 90 percent of the total eligible population. During the enrollment, vital data of individuals is taken.

The country has 29.16 million people as per the 2021 census conducted by the National Statistics Office.

“Now our priority is to distribute the cards after first focusing on enrollment,” said Keshar. “We have already printed three million cards. Of them, 1.8 million have been delivered to the District Administration Offices for distribution.”

Read the rest of the report here.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

In August, 2023, The WinePress reported on a similar venture taking place in Ghana. Their explicit goal, according to one of the heads in charge of this, said the intent is preparing the nation “to fully partake in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a term coined by World Economic Forum founder and Professor Klaus Schwab; who partly described this revolution as “governments will gain new technological powers to increase their control over populations, based on pervasive surveillance systems and the ability to control digital infrastructure.”

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, finally, will change not only what we do but also who we are. It will affect our identity and all the issues associated with it: our sense of privacy, our notions of ownership, our consumption patterns, the time we devote to work and leisure, and how we develop our careers, cultivate our skills, meet people, and nurture relationships.

It is already changing our health and leading to a “quantified” self, and sooner than we think it may lead to human augmentation. The list is endless because it is bound only by our imagination.

Schwab wrote in a 2016 article about the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The digital ID scheme is one of the next important frameworks the elites want to get in place, as it would become the new retroactive social credit monitor and facilitator for CBDCs. You are going to see more nations introduce this this year and in 2025, especially as world economies collapse and the people become desperate for a new solution – and will accept it out of fear and famine.

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Job 2:4

Of course, the underpinnings of this are laying the foundation for the eventual mark of the beast.

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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