In a bid to redress the complaints of overseas Pakistanis pertaining to issuance of new National Identity Cards (NIC), National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has decided to set up Swift Registration Centres (SRCs) in UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Chairman Nadra Brigadier Saleem Moin (Retd) said this while talking to Business Recorder.
With the functioning of those centre Pakistanis residing in those countries would benefit a lot. Such centres would also be established in other countries, he said.
"Nadra has so far issued 35.448 million computerised NICs and 400,00 people are approaching Nadra centres for the issuance of NICs every day. In order to cater this rush, Nadra has made special arrangements", he said.
He said that Nadra was financially a viable organisation but around 3,800 retired personnel of registration department have become financial burden on the organisation.
He was of the view that data being collected by Nadra at the time of submission of papers for issuance of computerised cards could be helpful in chalking out future strategy.
He added that Nadra was the most efficient public sector organisation, which had provided jobs to around 100,00 people including hundreds of MCS degree holders. Nadra had also provided its services for the computerisation of land record of Capital Development Authority (CDA).
Under a pilot project, the Authority had also computerised the death and birth records of 150 union councils of Lahore and 17 union councils of Sialkot.
He claimed that a number of countries have approached Nadra for developing a software for the registration purpose.
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