178 Karachi UCs linked to NADRA system

KARACHI: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed has said the citizens could save themselves from lot of complications if they fulfill their legal responsibility by timely registration of birth, death, marriage & divorce records.

He was speaking as chief guest in a seminar held in a local hotel by NADRA and UNFPA.

He said the 178 union councils of Karachi have already been linked with the NADRA's Civil Registration Management System and with this all the citizens would now be issued with computerized certificates for birth, death, marriage and divorce which would be made alter proof.

He said these computerized documents would help in the admissions in schools, colleges, issuance of visas for other countries, distribution of real estates and other such matters. These documents would be acknowledged in all the countries.

Administrator said the secretaries of union councils were imparted with training for this so that they could serve the citizens in a better way with the help of latest system.

Speaking on this occasion the Director Operation Division Faheem Akhter said NADRA had launched new software as Civil Registration Management System under which four of the important documents could be registered at NADRA through concerned union council. These includes certificate for birth, death, marriage and divorce.

All the 6550 union councils of Pakistan were imparted with the training on the issuance of computerized certificates and these UCs were also connected with the central system of NADRA. So far 2233 union councils were made operational in this connection.

He said today's seminar was aimed at providing training to union secretaries and to turn their attention towards the areas where the registration of documents had been quite fewer.

NADRA had planned a media campaign for such areas which have low literacy rate and thus had fewer knowledge about the registration of important documents.

The Civil Registration Management System was launched by NADRA in 2006 and so far documents pertaining to about 1.5 crore people had been registered. This system had been fully implemented in and being gradually implemented in the interior Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhua province.

He said the NADRA Information System would also be launched soon through which all the major governmental organizations including banks and embassies of different countries would be able to endorse these documents on line.

The seminar was also addressed by Director General CRMS Head Quarter Islamabad Colonel(R)Talha, Additional Director NADRA Sindh Khalid Waleed and others.