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27.12.10
Journey Of Civil Registration
NADRA set out on the journey of Civil Registration of all Pakistanis in March 2000 and in a short span of time NADRA’s team indigenously created a state of the art centralized Data Warehouse, Network Infrastructure and Interactive Data Acquisition Systems to issue secure Computerized National Identity Cards (CNIC). With the introduction of this new fool-proof, comprehensive and highly sophisticated computerized system, NADRA has been successful in reducing the identity theft to a bare minimum. NADRA prides itself on one of the largest centralized databases in the world. This highly secure and intelligent National Data Warehouse is the central hub of NADRA’s extraordinary strength and growth in the last 8 years. NADRA’s National Data warehouse hosts the data of over 96 million citizens and runs various Transaction Processing, Business Intelligence and Decision Support applications. Operating on international standards and models, NADRA has also developed a comprehensive supply chain, developing understandings with worldwide technology developers & resellers that give us access to state-of-the-art technologies and also enable us to assist clients in acquiring the best value for money in the market.
Introduction
National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) has gained international recognition for its success in providing solutions for identification, e-governance and secure documents that deliver multi-pronged goals of mitigating identity theft, safe-guarding the interests of our clients, and facilitating the public. In-depth Research and Development efforts have enabled NADRA to become the trailblazer in the area of Software Integration, Data Warehousing, Network Infrastructure Development and Project Management.
18.12.10
300,000 Watan Cards Distributed Among Survivors
The Business Recorder: Dated 5 October 2010
National Database and Registration Authority, NADRA has issued 300,000 Watan Cards to flood affected families ensuring a transparent disbursal of 20 thousand rupees per family as announced by the Government of Pakistan and so far 225,000 families have drawn more than Rs 2.5 billion, this was stated by Tariq Malik Deputy Chairman NADRA in a statement issued on Monday.
He said NADRA staff is consistently serving the people in the affected areas through 45 centres in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa and Sindh while similar efforts in the remaining areas are likely to be initiated by the end of the week. He said NADRA’s role at these centres is restricted only to verify affected people according to the lists and data provided and notified by provincial governments while ensuring law and o respective order situation and providing security at the centres is of responsibility local administration and provincial Governments.
He said that NADRA is striving on zero error policy to ensure that only deserving families are issued Watan Cards enabling them to draw benefits announced by the Government. The system does not allow any human intervention giving space to corruption.
He said that unscrupulous elements for monetary gain manage to hoodwink common citizens before entering the centres but no NADRA staff has been found involved in any kind of corruption-PR
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National Database and Registration Authority, NADRA has issued 300,000 Watan Cards to flood affected families ensuring a transparent disbursal of 20 thousand rupees per family as announced by the Government of Pakistan and so far 225,000 families have drawn more than Rs 2.5 billion, this was stated by Tariq Malik Deputy Chairman NADRA in a statement issued on Monday.
He said NADRA staff is consistently serving the people in the affected areas through 45 centres in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa and Sindh while similar efforts in the remaining areas are likely to be initiated by the end of the week. He said NADRA’s role at these centres is restricted only to verify affected people according to the lists and data provided and notified by provincial governments while ensuring law and o respective order situation and providing security at the centres is of responsibility local administration and provincial Governments.
He said that NADRA is striving on zero error policy to ensure that only deserving families are issued Watan Cards enabling them to draw benefits announced by the Government. The system does not allow any human intervention giving space to corruption.
He said that unscrupulous elements for monetary gain manage to hoodwink common citizens before entering the centres but no NADRA staff has been found involved in any kind of corruption-PR
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Watan Card Formula Endorsed by All Chief Ministers
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has issued 500,000 Watan Cards to disburse and amount of Rs10 billion of cash assistance to flood affected families. NADRA has established 70 sites to disburse 20 thousand rupees per family through Watan Cards as announced by the Government of Pakistan. This was stated by Deputy Chairman NADRA, Tariq Malik in a statement issued on Monday.
He argued that the NADRA staff was striving hard to help the people in the affected areas through 70 centers in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KPK). NADRA has achieved its target to set up 30 sites in Punjab, while 32 sites in Sindh and 8 sites in Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa are working to verify the deserving affected people”, Malik claimed.
He told that NADRA would also establish seven more sites in Sindh and seven sites in the KPK provinces, while similar efforts in the remaining areas would also be initiated soon. He further stated that NADRA has been striving on a zero error policy to ensure that only deserving families are issued Watan Cards enabling them to draw benefits announced by the government. The system does not allow any human intervention giving space to corruption. He informed that the concerned banks have been directed to increase more cash points for the ease of flood affected people in drawing cash.
He said NADRA's role at these centers is restricted only to verify affected people according to the lists and data provided and notified by provincial governments while ensuring law and order and providing security at the centers is responsibility of local administration and respective provincial Governments.
He requested flood affected persons to launch their complaints to the local government through DCOs about inclusion and exclusion of their names in their lists. It is the prerogative of the concerned provincial government to notify NADRA about the necessary action as per policy. He said that unscrupulous elements for monetary gain manage to hoodwink common citizens before entering the centers but no NADRA staff has been found involved in any kind of corruption. He urged provincial and Local Governments to take action against corrupt practices.
He said local DCOs and administrations are supposed to guide the flood victims to their concerned centers which will not only avoid influx of irrelevant people at the centers but would ensure security of staff at these sites enabling them to perform their duties more effectively without any hindrances.
He claimed that by now NADRA has processed approximately 175,000 CNICs in lieu of fresh and duplicate cards, free of cost to the flood affectees on an emergency basis
He argued that the NADRA staff was striving hard to help the people in the affected areas through 70 centers in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KPK). NADRA has achieved its target to set up 30 sites in Punjab, while 32 sites in Sindh and 8 sites in Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa are working to verify the deserving affected people”, Malik claimed.
He told that NADRA would also establish seven more sites in Sindh and seven sites in the KPK provinces, while similar efforts in the remaining areas would also be initiated soon. He further stated that NADRA has been striving on a zero error policy to ensure that only deserving families are issued Watan Cards enabling them to draw benefits announced by the government. The system does not allow any human intervention giving space to corruption. He informed that the concerned banks have been directed to increase more cash points for the ease of flood affected people in drawing cash.
He said NADRA's role at these centers is restricted only to verify affected people according to the lists and data provided and notified by provincial governments while ensuring law and order and providing security at the centers is responsibility of local administration and respective provincial Governments.
He requested flood affected persons to launch their complaints to the local government through DCOs about inclusion and exclusion of their names in their lists. It is the prerogative of the concerned provincial government to notify NADRA about the necessary action as per policy. He said that unscrupulous elements for monetary gain manage to hoodwink common citizens before entering the centers but no NADRA staff has been found involved in any kind of corruption. He urged provincial and Local Governments to take action against corrupt practices.
He said local DCOs and administrations are supposed to guide the flood victims to their concerned centers which will not only avoid influx of irrelevant people at the centers but would ensure security of staff at these sites enabling them to perform their duties more effectively without any hindrances.
He claimed that by now NADRA has processed approximately 175,000 CNICs in lieu of fresh and duplicate cards, free of cost to the flood affectees on an emergency basis
NADRA Launches Secure Cards for Afghan Refugees
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is launching ‘secure cards’ for registration of more than 1.75 million Afghan refugees, NADRA Deputy Chairman Tariq Malik stated this in a press briefing while launching the Islamabad site of SCAC registration.
The authority has registered 2.15 million Afghan citizens and issued 1.7 million PVC-based cards to Afghan citizens, the cards issued under UNHCR supervision had United Nations on Pakistani national institutions and software engineering capabilities of NADRA,” he said. NADRA stand among the top 50 companies in the world in identity management industry.
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dr. Imran Zaib, Joint Secretary of Ministry of SAFRON and senior officials of UNHCR and NADRA were present on the occasion.
Tariq Malik said that project includes conversion of PVC based PoR cards into Teslin cards, issuance of birth certificates to registered Afghans, registration of unregistered members of registered families, acquisition of latest biometrics and demographic information of Afghans and optimisation of verification / validation procedure of PoR card.
“It is in the best interest of both Pakistan and Afghanistan that we help UNHCR to register our Afghan brothers and sisters, as it would provide them a legal status to reside in Pakistan,” said Tariq Malik.
He said in March, the government had extended the stay of registered Afghan nationals till December 31, 2012 while the pilot project was launched on August 18, 2010 in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and in Quetta. He said later SCAC operations were launched throughout the country on September 24 from 44 centres simultaneously.
He said in 23 days after the launch of SCAC operations, 159,338 applicants are processed so far, 85948 cards have been produced, 22,073 cards have been delivered and 4384 birth certificates have been issued to the applicants. Project targeted all provinces of Pakistan collectively having 1,964,188 Afghan Nationals.
He said for this project NADRA has to arrange deployment of 62 online SCAC centres, production and issuance of 1.75 million Teslin based cards, printing and issuance of 1.0 million Birth Certificates, registration and issuance of PoR card to 200,000 UMRF from 9 designated centres and System Development and updating Afghan Citizens Database.
He said total 44 centres are operational across the country while 22 in KPK, 12 in Balochistan, 6 in Islamabad, one in Lahore, one in Sargodha and 2 in Karachi sites are working to register the Afghan nationals.
The authority has registered 2.15 million Afghan citizens and issued 1.7 million PVC-based cards to Afghan citizens, the cards issued under UNHCR supervision had United Nations on Pakistani national institutions and software engineering capabilities of NADRA,” he said. NADRA stand among the top 50 companies in the world in identity management industry.
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dr. Imran Zaib, Joint Secretary of Ministry of SAFRON and senior officials of UNHCR and NADRA were present on the occasion.
Tariq Malik said that project includes conversion of PVC based PoR cards into Teslin cards, issuance of birth certificates to registered Afghans, registration of unregistered members of registered families, acquisition of latest biometrics and demographic information of Afghans and optimisation of verification / validation procedure of PoR card.
“It is in the best interest of both Pakistan and Afghanistan that we help UNHCR to register our Afghan brothers and sisters, as it would provide them a legal status to reside in Pakistan,” said Tariq Malik.
He said in March, the government had extended the stay of registered Afghan nationals till December 31, 2012 while the pilot project was launched on August 18, 2010 in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and in Quetta. He said later SCAC operations were launched throughout the country on September 24 from 44 centres simultaneously.
He said in 23 days after the launch of SCAC operations, 159,338 applicants are processed so far, 85948 cards have been produced, 22,073 cards have been delivered and 4384 birth certificates have been issued to the applicants. Project targeted all provinces of Pakistan collectively having 1,964,188 Afghan Nationals.
He said for this project NADRA has to arrange deployment of 62 online SCAC centres, production and issuance of 1.75 million Teslin based cards, printing and issuance of 1.0 million Birth Certificates, registration and issuance of PoR card to 200,000 UMRF from 9 designated centres and System Development and updating Afghan Citizens Database.
He said total 44 centres are operational across the country while 22 in KPK, 12 in Balochistan, 6 in Islamabad, one in Lahore, one in Sargodha and 2 in Karachi sites are working to register the Afghan nationals.
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