ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has bagged the project of Sri Lankan National identity cards (NIC)s in presence giants like Malaysia, India, China and Britain The Nation reports.
The mega project won by Pakistan’s NADRA include digitalisation, collection of the data of Sri Lankan citizens, biometric and biographic. This will help in the transformation of registration of National persons.
Interior and Narcotics Control Minister Chaudhry Nisar congratulated NADRA’s Chairman on winning the project. He said, “NADRA has made Pakistan proud”. The government of Sri Lanka invited firms of IT to participate for the projects of segregating Scanning/ Digitisation of new ID Forms, ID Card Backend system and Data Centre and Personalization of ID Cards.
It was mandatory for international firms to bid in partnership with local firms. NADRA submitted bids for two components via NADRA-Informatics consortium.
The consortium has been awarded the Letter of Intent for the first phase of the project by being the lowest bidder. In the first component, at present, there are approximately 15 million manual paper based identity card holders.
NADRA’s other international achievements include Machine Readable Passport (MRP) Issuance System for Kenya, Driving Licensing system for Bangladesh, Biometric Refugee Registration System for UNHCR and World Bank’s Poverty Score Card |System.
NADRA is among the top 50 system integrators in world ranking, according to Italy-based ID World Congress ratings. “This extraordinary milestone will further improve NADRA’s international ratings,” said Tariq Malik.
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