It will be possible to submit electronic application for Riga pupil’s e-card
Starting from academic year 2015/2016, the order of applying for, receiving and restoring Riga pupil’s e-cards will be changed. This is because the functionality of the e-card will change, and it will also serve as the pupil’s ID card.
The new procedure of changing the pupil’s e-card will apply to pupils of forms 5 and 10, as well as to those 7-formers who have entered gymnasiums or changed comprehensive education schools. The pupils of the above forms will get new pupil’s e-cards and will have to return the previously used cards to schools.
„The new pupil’s e-cards will be also recognised official pupil’s ID cards or pupil’s cards in Riga. They will also bear the school’s headmaster’s signature,” noted Ivars Balamovskis, assistant director of Riga City Council’s Department for Education, Culture and Sports.
To make the application for the pupil’s e-card and its restoration faster and more convenient, the IT centre of Riga City Council together with „Rīgas satiksme” and Riga City Council’s Department for Education, Culture and Sports have developed a new electronic service „Application for pupil’s e-card”, which enables parents to submit a remote application for a new card.
As of August 17, when the new service is launched, parents will have to fill in applications for pupil’s e-cards at www.eriga.lv , where data of the pupil and the school where he or she goes will be selected automatically. A photo of the pupil will also have to be attached to the application. „Rīgas satiksme” will manufacture pupil’s e-cards, based on the data submitted, and will deliver the cards to respective schools, where headmasters will sign them and issue to pupils.
Parents are particularly urged to do it before August 31, so that new cards could be delivered to schools, because after this date it will be possible to receive the new cards at „Rīgas satiksme” customer service centres only.
One can also still apply for a pupil’s e-card personally in customer service centres, after presenting a certificate issued by the school. Yet then one should reckon with queues and have to go to school after the headmaster’s signature.
This year the new order will not apply to first-formers. Their cards will be manufactured on a collective request prepared by school, to which photos of pupils will be attached.
Riga City Council’s Public Relations Department
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