PSA to register 622 K

Boholanos by March

CORTES, Bohol, Feb 6 (PIA) – The race to register 622,000 Boholanos to the unified Philippine national identification system (PhilSys) starts here in Tagbilaran as the Philippine Statistics Authority rolls up its Step 2 Registration with a Center here, February 2.

No less than Provincial statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren, City Mayor John Geesnell Yap II and Land Bank of the Philippines Capitol Branch Manager Dexter Ray Ruiz, along with PSA Bohol officials and Bohol Local Civil Registrar Association president cut and witnessed the ceremonial opening of the step 2 registration with a handful of registrants ready to test the process.

PSA Bohol supervising statistical specialist Jocelyn Sarmiento said the City Registration Center, is the first among the 47 towns and a city in Bohol who will move the registration process a step further, where registrants initial information given during the pre-registration phase would be validated before their biometric profiles are digitally captured.

It may be recalled that since last year, the PSA implemented step 1 of the Philsys Registration focusing on low-income family heads, especially those in the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Listahanan, recalls Alcazaren during the recent Kapihan sa PIA, aired at DyTR FM.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, prioritizing low-income household heads in the registration process aims to enable them, with their national ID, to open bank accounts so that they would be able to receive their government assistance digitally.

The goal is to ensure that at least one member of low-income households, who lack identity documentation, has an ID sufficient for opening a bank account, states the PSA in its page on the PhilSys.

A follow-through activity, Philsys Step 2 Registration at the Tagbilaran City Registration Center and at registration centers to be set up in the towns in the next few days validated the Pre-Registration Information and secures the registrants’ digital image, finger prints and an iris scan form a complete digital profile.

To help in the registration are 164 registration kits to be distributed in registration centers all over Bohol between this week until March 2021, Alcazaren shared.

The gameplan is for each registration kit to register at least 5 persons per hour on a 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM schedule, where all electronic data would be uploaded to the PSA central databanks, according to PSA.

Step 3 on the Philsys registration involves the printing of the ID system by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the printed cards would be sent to the PSA local offices and for the PSA to deliver the cards to their owners.

Although the PhilSys will not replace existing functional IDs that serve other purposes, it will provide a valid proof of identity to any person, and acts as a platform to transform and streamline how services are delivered especially for easier accessibility and application for eligibility to social welfare programs and benefits from the government. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

PHILSYS STEP 2 ROLLOUT. Philippine Statistics Authority AND THE City of Tagbilaran through Provincial Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren and City Mayor John Geesnell Yap II along with LandBank of the Philippines Manager Dexter Ray Ruiz led the opening of the Tagbilaran City Registration Center which now targets to serve 6,485 residents which the government has prioritized for the national ID system. (rahc/PIA Bohol)

150 REGISTRANTS PER DAY. PSA intends to registed at least 50 residents per unit per day at the city’s three booths located inside the Tourism and Information Center Building in front of Iland City Mall and beside Dao Central market. Step 2 registration runs for prioritized beneficiaries until April 30, 2021. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)