The Department of Registration of Persons (DRoP) is yet to receive a considerable number of National Identity Cards (NIC) applications from this year’s GCE O/L candidates. The DRP has found that some 50,000 students have failed to get their NICs so far.
The Department of Registration of Persons says that it has strongly instructed the students who sit the GCE (O/L) 2014 in December this year to get their NICs within next two weeks.
“Several circulars were issued to all schools to take early steps to get NICs for their students in advance but many principals have ignored our instructions and consequently, students would undergo difficulties at the last moment with the public examination,” the department sources said.
According to the DRP, students who are 16-years of age, as at 31 October, 2014, are eligible to apply for NICs, while those who are under 16-years will have to use the postal ID.
