Hi everyone
In view of the recent terrorist activities, our CM has announced the issue of ID cards to citizens of Bangalore and probably Karnataka.
While this is a welcome step, it may lead to duplication & hence wastage of govt. funds
my suggestion would be to compulsorily to issue passports to every citizen of Bangalore & Karnataka and use that as an ID. In this manner the govt. will earn a lot of revenue and the passport can be used for identification instead of issuing one more ID card involving lot of money. issue of passports to everyone and using that as an identification, is just like hitting two birds with one stone.
Srinath Heragu
a state-level effort isn't enough
I missed reading the details in newspapers due to travel. But assuming that this would be limited to Karnataka only, and a unilateral effort from our state, I think this won't lead to the results we want. How do you know if someone is a tourist or not? Whats the duration of temporay stay for which an id card is not mandatory? And how would you validate someone's claim that he is living in the state only for x days and not x months.
I will read more about this, but this has got to be a national level effort. Further, do you think these are practical?
Is a national finger print database a bad idea? Can this be the complimentary or primary id. Police would have the readers. And major public places will have the readers at entrance. Put your thumb on it, and then enter the station, airport or whatever. Security agencies will be watching things asynchronously, and tracking their subjects of interest.
Now, you would be getting into privacy laws. Yes, there are some blurred lines there. But can be debated and worked upon, as nobody is talking about a GPS on people's bodies - you are being tracked only around public places, and not continuously.
basic policing first
Whatever happened to...
yes the mess is deep
human intelligence
CHRI meet - 8th Aug
I am amongst the invitees of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to a meeting being convened by them for working out the future strategy and advocacy for better policing in Karnataka on Friday, 8 August 2008 in the afternoon/evening. The meeting will discuss further actions of the campaign and also the recent developments in Kerala where the Police Act Drafting Committee has posted their Draft Police Bill on internet and invited comments from the public.
CHRI has also invited me to participate in the Lecture and Launch of our two reports that will be held on 9 August.
If any one else interested in attending, I expect CHRI will be happy to extend an invitation.
Muralidhar Rao