The Election Commission has disposed of more than 900,000 applications for corrections to National Identity Cards (NID) in the last six months under a special crash program.
“Under the crash program, we have resolved 907,662 NID correction applications in the past six months,” said Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed at a press briefing on Wednesday.
Highlighting the progress of the crash program, the Election Commission secretary said that only 76,694 NID correction applications remain to be settled.
“Public sufferings related to NID services have declined,” he said.
As of January 1 this year, there were 378,806 pending NID correction applications.
Between January and June, another 605,520 new applications were submitted.
Of the total 984,356 applications during this period, 907,662 have been disposed of, leaving 76,694 still pending, he said.
As the number of pending applications decreases, so does the intensity of complaints about harassment and suffering, the Election Commission secretary added.
Since 2020, the Election Commission has received a total of 5,476,011 correction applications, out of which 5,399,420 have been resolved.