‘Mega MyDaftar’ campaign receives 2,500 applications — Subramaniam

PUTRAJAYA: The “Mega MyDaftar’’ campaign aimed at helping every Malaysian Indian without personal identification documents has received 2,500 applications since it kicked off on June 5.

MIC president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the majority of applications received during the campaign which ended today involved complicated cases that required specialised research from the National Registration Department (NRD) and Special Implementation Task Force (SITF) of the Cabinet Committee on the Indian Community.

“Those application are quite complicated to be resolved directly by the NRD because they involve documentation issues, including information on when, where and where the parents of the applicants are.

“The cases require the involvement of a micro management level of intervention and therefore, the SITF committee needs to review each case to find the data or information needed to complete the application,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference after reviewing the last day of the campaign at the NRD headquarters here yesterday, Dr Subramaniam, who is also SITF chairman, said the committee needed about three months to collect the relevant data and information due to difficulty in locating the parents or families of the individuals who submitted the applications.

He said without micro management interventions, applications requiring information of applicants’ parents who might have died or had moved away from the original address, could not be resolved. - Bernama