Nadra asks people to get registered
KARACHI (APP) – Chairman NADRA brig ((Rtd) Saleem Ahmed Moeen has said that every citizen should get registered with the NADRA in order to be able to avail the facility of getting a telephone connection to hassle free utility bill payment.
“Every facility is now linked with the verification of the credentials of citizen through computerised ID Cards”, he said while speaking with journalists here Tuesday.
Brig Saleem said NADRA recently managed to achieve yet another milestone with the issuance of 60 million Computerized National Identity Cards (CNIC).
But, still a long way is to go as far as registration in Balochistan is concerned, he said adding that only 2.07 million population of the province has registered themselves with NADRA so for including 1.38 million males and 0.69 million females.
In order to facilitate the people in registration, as many as 27 mobile registration vans and 40 NSRCs are working throughout Balochistan, he informed.
NADRA Chief said the female population is more reluctant to get them registered, as evident from the registration figures. 40 swift centers are receiving around 1000 applications daily while 27 mobile vans working across the province have processed around 473,000 application forms.
Highlighting various services of NADRA, Brig Saleem said the authority, under a project awarded by UNHCR, registered approximately 4.40 lacs Afghan refugees in Balochistan electronically and compiled their demographics. NADRA has also successfully introduced an innovative Civil Registration Management system (CRMS) to electronically capture and store data, maintain local and central record at UC levels and link child registration with the CNIC of the database authority.
In total 30 Districts 567 Union Councils are being computerized of which 190 are operational and around 12000 registrations have been made so far, he told journalists. The system, he pointed out, will help local Government in the issuance of Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce and Migration Certificates in order to maintain uniformity through out
Pakistan.
Source: The Nation
Date:11/21/2007
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