During a video-conferencing on Thursday, Union Home Secretary has informed that it is mandatory to create unique identity number (UIN) of every firearm holder, take its sticker print from office of the district magistrate and paste the same on his licence.
licences of firearms found without sticker after expiry of prescribed period will be deemed as automatically cancelled. At video-conferencing, information was sought about progress of data entry pertaining to firearms. Secretary Home DP Gupta, Deputy Secretary Home Madan Kumar and Koshi John of NIC participated in video-conferencing.
The Union Home Ministry has implemented a gazette notification with effect from July 2012 to enter data of every firearm licence and create its unique identity number (UIN) under National Database of Arms licence (NDAl) Scheme.
It was informed during video-conferencing that excellent work in this regard has been done in Chhindwara, Datia, Guna, Gwalior, Hoshangabad, Jhabua, Mandla, Panna, Raisen, Rewa, Singrauli, Tikamgarh and Umaria districts in Madhya Pradesh. District magistrates of Bhind, Chhatarpur, Katni, Khargone, Sagar, Shahdol, Sheopur and Rajgarh were directed to update database entries immediately.
It was directed about migrant licence holders within 30 days that they must inform about migration to DM of the place where firearm licence was issued and DM of the place where his migrating.
Directives have been given to create UIN of firearms holders at the place where they are residing at present. Otherwise their arms licences will be cancelled. They can avoid inconvenience by pasting sticker of UIN on their firearms licence.