New ID cards distribution to Samtse residents

Phuentsholing, September 24: The Department of Civil Registration has asked the people from Samtse working in Thimphu to file their application for new Identity card within today.

If they failed to get it from Thimphu, they have to travel to Samtse and will be distributed by the gups.

The process would continue in Mongar after Samtse.

The distribution of new ID cards began in August 2004 and the government plans to complete it by October in view of the approaching election scheduled for December.

The cards being distributed according to the census records of 2001 which excludes over 80,000 citizens from southern districts. Bhutan News Service