Everything About Kalabarg Self-Declaration

The Kalabarg credit increase plan, launched to ease inflationary pressure on households, has now reached the registration scheduling stage. The plan was meant to make access to livelihood support easier, but system disruptions, extended self-declaration deadlines and a surge in visits have led the government to divide applicants based on the last digit of their national ID number. The post Everything About Kalabarg Self-Declaration first appeared on Safir Arjan.

According to Ambassador Arjan, increasing the credit of Kalaberg is one of the government's support measures to compensate part of the decrease in the purchasing power of households. A policy that has gained special importance for different income deciles in the conditions of the increase in the cost of basic goods.

However, the implementation of this program in the registration and self-declaration phase has been accompanied by problems that have now turned a significant part of public opinion's attention from the principle of livelihood support to how to access it.

The story started when the heads of the household were asked to go to the e-government portal to register information and check the conditions for increasing the credit of Kalaberg. With the beginning of the self-declaration process, the high volume of referrals and technical problems in registering applications created concerns about applicants being left out of the plan.

Further, the registration deadline was extended until Friday 24 Mehr; But now it has become clear that the extension of time was not enough to manage referrals and the government has turned to scheduling applicants.

This happened while the target community of the plan is very wide. According to the officials, the self-declaration SMS will be sent to 18,300,000 heads of households, equivalent to about 40 million people. Such an expansion shows that the registration system should have been prepared from the beginning to respond to millions of requests in a limited period of time.

In the past days, there were reports about the slowness of the system, the difficulty of entering the e-government portal, and the problems of registering information. Part of these disturbances is related to the connection between the national window of smart government services and related systems; An issue that caused some applicants to not be able to complete the self-declaration process in the expected time.

With the increasing concern of households about the end of the registration deadline, the Subsidy Targeting Organization announced the extension of the self-declaration opportunity until the end of Friday, 24 Mehr. This decision was supposed to provide more opportunity to record information, but the main problem of simultaneously managing the high volume of referrals remained.

Now, the head of Iran's Information Technology Organization has announced that the application of applicants to the e-government portal should be based on the last digit of the national code of household heads. According to the new program, the holders of the national code with the final digits 0 and 1 must refer to the system on Wednesday 22 Mehr, digits 2, 3 and 4 on Thursday 23 Mehr and digits 5 to 9 on Friday 24 Mehr.

Officials have also emphasized that only household heads who have received SMS should enter the system. This restriction shows that the government, in addition to distributing referrals on different days, is trying to prevent the simultaneous entry of people whose turn to register has not yet come.

Queuing based on the last digit of the national code is a solution to reduce simultaneous pressure on the electronic infrastructure. By dividing the applicants into several days, the possibility of disruption caused by the density of referrals is reduced and the system gets more time to process the requests.

However, the implementation of such a strategy in the middle of registration has raised questions about the level of initial preparation of the responsible institutions.

When the target community of a support plan is known from the beginning and millions of households have to register their information in a short period of time, predicting the technical capacity corresponding to this volume of referrals is considered part of the plan's implementation requirements. Therefore, although queuing can manage the current problem to some extent, it alone does not give a clear answer to why the initial disturbances occur.

On the other hand, the complexity of obtaining livelihood support may make it more difficult for some households, especially the elderly, residents of low-income areas, or those with limited access to the Internet and electronic services. In such a situation, accurate notification, reduction of unnecessary steps and ensuring the successful registration of requests become more important.

In response to the concerns of the applicants, the head of the Information Technology Organization has announced that the deadline will be extended until the self-declaration of all people is registered. Also, after successful registration, there is no need to refer again or continuously check the system.

This reassurance can reduce repeated visits, but it is necessary that no household is left out of the registration process due to technical problems or time constraints.

All in all, the plan to increase the credit of Kalaberg now faces a test beyond the allocation of financial resources.

The success of this policy is not only dependent on the amount of credit allocated to households, but also the ease of access, the speed of implementation of the processes and the people's confidence of receiving support also play a role in its evaluation.

Turning the registration process of a livelihood support into a series of extension of the deadline, limitation of reference and queuing of the national code, shows that the gap between the design of the policy and its implementation is still a serious issue. Now, in addition to managing the current situation, the responsible institutions are expected to provide a mechanism to receive the next support without forming virtual queues and imposing repeated steps on the households.