5 November 2014 12:27 pm
He said that there was no proper method to provide information on people when there was a disaster in the country.
“The mostly asked questions during a disaster situation like in Koslanda landslide are how many residents were at the place of the incident and how many were affected. Today, we don’t have a proper mechanism to provide an answer with an exact number to these questions,” he told a news conference today.
He said all the information of an individual including his family members would be added to a Central Data Base in line with the Digital Identity Card system.
“This data base will be useful when providing information of a particular area. When the card number was inserted in to the data base, we will be able to find the details of the individual,” he said. (Sanath Desmond & Lahiru Pothmulla)