Number of late birth registration drops following Mekar programme — NRD DG
08 May 2021 / 18:41 H.
- Bernama
MARANG: The National Registration Department recorded 6,894 cases of late birth registration nationwide last year following the implementation of the Menyemai Kasih Rakyat (Mekar) programme, said its director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh.
He said the trend had been decreasing for the past 10 years adding that 30,466 cases were recorded in 2010.
“Through the Mekar programme, NRD personnel have been going down to the ground to meet persons with disabilities (PwD), the elderly, poor, those bed-ridden and living in the interior areas, to assist them with their MyKad and birth certificate registrations.”