cover ;; The Election Commission (EC) has decided to send a message on mobile in the case of giving a high-quality national identity card (NID) or smart card to the voters. Laminating NID is currently being given.
Mohammad Shafiq, Communication Consultant of EC NID Division, said that 6 crore 1 lakh smart cards have been sent to the upazila level so far. The total distribution of 5 crore 7 lakh 90 thousand cards is going on. The work of inserting information into 1 crore 2 lakh blank cards is going on. These cards i.e. 73 million cards are being taken from the French company.
It is known that 55 lakh 79 thousand 30 new voters have been added to the list after the 2020 uproar. The total number of voters is 10 crore 98 lakh 19 thousand 112 people. As a result, the Election Commission has handed over smart cards to half of the country's voters, while the company has to go to the production and distribution of the remaining 3 crore 95 lakh 19 thousand 111 cards.
Officials say that the Election Commission has also stopped the smart card distribution program if the government has announced a general holiday due to Corona in March. At present, the commission has decided to start the smart card distribution program in a limited way after the instructions from the government to run the office of all the officials and employees.
The decision of the EC monthly meeting is known to have been made in the minutes of the meeting. It is notable that the public gathering activities are done according to the hygiene rules due to the Corona situation.
In his view, the EC Secretary Md. Alamgir National Registration Division has directed the registration department to review the poison. He said that those who are interested in taking smart cards from the website designated on the website should review the smart card giving poison to a limited scale. In this case, the distribution of smart cards should be started in a limited way. In the same way, more people can be sent to the mobile phone and send SMS to the mobile phone and send small messages to the mobile phone.
Director of NID branch in this poison. "We have not stopped the distribution of smart cards, we have been providing services when many institutions were closed. Now all the services are available online. The distribution of smart cards is also planned to be started on a limited basis. The service will be launched soon.
The Election Commission has stopped distributing smart cards now but by registering new voters online (services.nidw.gov.bd) they are giving yourself the opportunity to download and take the NID yourself, but no one can download their own NID more than once. Later, the service has to be taken by paying a certain amount of fee to the bank to download.