National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) spokesperson said on Friday that the organization has embarked upon a crash drive to reach out to the citizens of Pakistan for CNICs on war footing.
Pakistan had emerged as one of the few countries in the world where 96 percent of the adult population had been registered through the most secure biometric technology introduced by NADRA.
The spokesperson informed that the registration level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) had been observed as 99.9 per cent, followed by Punjab at 99 per cent, Gilgit-Baltistan at 89 per cent, Sindh and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) at 88 per cent and Balochistan at 76 per cent against the projected population.
“Our focus is now Sindh and Balochistan and we are moving ahead in FATA despite severe law and order situation” spokesperson said adding that the task would be achieved within this calendar year.
NADRA had been making all-out efforts to get the adult population in Pakistan especially the women registered in a minimum possible time to facilitate them in getting voting rights, education, health, employment and other facilities.
NADRA has been making all out efforts to extend its Data Acquisition Units (DAUs) to the door steps of citizens and performing registration operations through numerous mobile units. NADRA had 452 National Registration Centers, 252 Mobile Registration Vans and 70 Semi Mobile Unites countrywide registration centers registering adults in far flung areas.
To encourage womenfolk, Friday has been reserved only for women at all NADRA centers throughout country, 11 women-only NADRA centers with female only staff have also been facilitating women in acquiring (CNICs). In addition to this, NADRA Chairman Tariq Malik had also written letter to all political parties where he emphasized that their outreach and presence across the country provided an opportunity to NADRA to access pockets of population that remained unregistered.
