One lakh data entry operators to get job

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said he would recommend to the prime minister for employing one lakh data entry operators who were earlier engaged in voter list and national ID card programme.He said this in a meeting with the journalists at Madaripur circuit house on a visit to the proposed site for server station and permanent district Election Commission office.Earlier, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shashi Kumar Singha proposed a land of 20 decimal opposite to his office for primary selection.Replying to a question the CEC said that server stations set up programme at every upazila would help the people to get voter list and national ID cards facilities locally.Huda said the Commission was thinking to provide high quality national ID cards for free and admitted that the distributed national ID cards were below international standard.Dhaka Divisional Deputy Election Commissioner Biswas Lutfor Rahman, Police Super M Khurshid Hossain and Additional DC (revenue) Md Kabirul Hasan were present at the meeting.