Election Commission to seek stakeholders' views to simplify NID services

The Election Commission (EC) will seek the views of stakeholders to simplify National Identity Card (NID) services.

Officials of the EC's NID wing shared the information on Monday (9 November).

A day-long workshop titled 'National Identity Card Service Activities — Present and Way Forward' will be held on 18 November at the Electoral Training Institute in Agargaon, it has been learned.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin will attend the workshop as chief guest, along with other members of the commission and EC officials.

Teachers, social workers, public representatives, representatives of political parties, senior government officials and members of the media have already been invited to take part in the workshop.

It has been learned that the EC settles NID correction applications in six categories — Ka, Ka-1, Kha, Kha-1, Ga and Gha — under a standard operating procedure (SOP).

The category is determined according to the complexity of the application, from Ka to Gha. After an application is submitted, additional regional election officers determine its category.

The number of voters in the country now stands at 128,777,643.

These voters, whose records are held in the EC's database, apply for NID corrections at various times to resolve different problems.

Based on the views of stakeholders at the workshop, the current state of the service will be reviewed and ways to improve it will be explored, it has been learned.