75-year-old Sarpsingh Kathayat of Vedkot Municipality-10 Chatahari has been in administration for four days to make a national identity card. He started running the administration after the government made the national identity card mandatory for social security allowances. However, due to problems with citizenship, there is a delay in making his identity card.

They usually leave home at 7/8 in the morning. When you reach the administration, there is already a long line. When he reaches the place where Zenten is staffed, he is turned away saying that the paper is missing. A whole day passes by going to the ward office again. "Planting is going on at home, I have been here for four days," said Kathayat, who was met at the district administration office in Kanchanpur on Sunday afternoon, "Now he said there will be work, but then he comes back saying he can't get it." 

The crowd of senior citizens has increased in Kanchanpur administration after the government made national identity card mandatory for social security allowance and pension. The meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 24 has decided to make national identity cards mandatory in 28 districts including Lalitpur, Tanahun, Kaski, Makwanpur, Chitwan, Sindhuli, Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Udaipur, Saptari, Sirha from August 1. Now senior citizens have to suffer because of the compulsion to present themselves and do biometrics while making national identity card.

In the Kanchanpur administration, elderly people have been lining up at 6 am for the past few days. "We have been hungry all day after eating a normal breakfast in the morning," said Delhi blacksmith from Ashapur, Shuklaphanta municipality-4, "It was difficult to breathe while waiting in line to submit the form." He and his wife Jankidevi left home at 8 am on Sunday morning. By noon he had not finished filling the form. ``My son goes to work in the morning, I come here,'' said Manmati Luhar of Jhalari in Shuklaphanta.