Federal Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah has launched NADRA Biker Service for carrying out all the processes of CNIC applied in renewal and modification categories at the door-step of the applicant. The inauguration ceremony was held at NADRA Headquarters,
Islamabad.
During his visit to NADRA Headquarters, Chairman NADRA briefed the Interior
Minister about NADRA operations in Sindh, Baluchistan and South Punjab which
have been badly affected by devastating floods and heavy rains.
The minister was informed that the monsoon rains and floods have caused
heavy losses to the most of buildings of NRCs which are inundated under
water; however, the equipment has been saved and evacuated. Houses of 150
NADRA employees in those areas have been damaged, the chairman informed.
Moreover, during the briefing Chairman NADRA informed the Minister that more
than 37 million people have been terribly affected due to on-going floods
and continuous rain pour. He told that the heavy rains and flooding
situation in certain areas had led to the loss of CNICs of affected people
which would be needed to have an access to governments’ relief disbursement
and other relief activities.
With regard to Biker service, Mr. Malik informed that initially the pilot
phase of the service would be started in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. By the
end of December this year, NADRA Biker service would be extended to all the
districts of the country, he added.
Chairman NADRA told the minister that after rolling out digital online
services for the citizens, a home-based NADRA’s Biker service is basically a
portable NADRA Centre that will walk into the peoples’ lounges and register
them in their premises saving them from the hassle of visiting NADRA centre.
Through this service the female registration officers using scooties will
also carry out the registration of women only.
Mr. Malik apprised the minister that he had been working on out-of-box
solutions with a prime focus on creating hand-on facilitation and
hassle-free registration for general public in a bid to accommodate more
than 125000 footfall daily at 771 NADRA centres across the country. He
informed that the long queues at NADRA registration centers, especially in
big and densely populated cities led him to go an extra mile by successfully
establishing 97 new NRCs and adding more than 100 new MRVs in the existing
fleet within past 10 months.
Lauding the efforts of Chairman NADRA, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said
Tariq Malik had latterly set a new benchmark globally by creating public
facilitation regime through the implementation of international standards
and world’s best practices in NADRA.
Speaking on the occasion, Interior Minister said that having a wide network
of NADRA Registration Centers (NRCs) in total, Mobile Registration Vans
(MRVs) and online Pak Identity service/Mobile App across the country to
cater for the registration of the people of Pakistan without prejudice on
daily basis, the introduction of a NADRA Biker shall bring NADRA services at
people’s homes.”
