ID cards for beneficiaries approved
IQALUIT Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. will issue official identification cards for all land-claim beneficiaries over the age of 16.
NTI’s board of directors approved the plan for the production of ID cards during a meeting in Arviat last week. Because of the expense associated with obtaining photographs, the board of directors agreed that the ID cards should contain text only, and NTI’s logo.
“The logistics would have been difficult, too, since appropriate photo ID equipment just isn’t available in many of our communtiies at this time,” Solomon Awa, project manager, said in a press release.
The ID cards are expected to be of particular value to beneficiaries who live in the South and must prove their Inuit status from time to time to government agencies, educational institutions and health authorities.
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