Digital certificates, IDs for FFs in two months

The government is set to provide all freedom fighters with digital certificates and identity cards (IDs) within two months, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque.

"The distribution of digital certificates and ID cards of the heroic freedom fighters is starting from today. In the first phase, digital certificates and cards are being provided to 37,091 freedom fighters of 13 districts," he said.

The minister was addressing a media call at the secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday, attended among others by accting secretary of the ministry, Ranjit Kumar Das.

Mozammel further said in the first phase, certificates and ID cards of freedom fighters of Gopalganj, Kishoreganj, Madaripur, Magura, Jhenaidah, Jashore, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Sunamganj, Habiganj, Moulvibazar, Narail and Gazipur districts will be distributed.

He hoped that it would not take more than two months to distribute digital certificates and ID cards across the country.

Freedom fighters will get both certificates and ID cards, but only digital certificates will be given to freedom fighters who have already passed away, he added.

He said maximum security measures have been taken to prevent forging of digital certificates and ID cards.

"A total of 14 types of security measures have been taken in digital certificates while 12 types in digital ID cards," he said.