Above 200,000 government officials and employees have applied for amended version of National Identity (NID) cards to ensure the salary of December under the new pay-scale.
The high figure was recorded in last month at the Election Commission (EC).
In November, the government issued a circular that all government employees must submit their online salary payment slip while the process makes the NID number mandatory.
The information they provided during entrance to jobs and the information in the NID must be identical, otherwise it would not be accepted.
But most of the employees experienced anomalies in the information and that is why they had to gather before the EC to get the NID corrected.
Mohammad Musa, director operations of the EC, told the Dhaka Tribune that they were relentlessly working day and night shifts, even on the holidays, to clear the NID amendment applications.
“We have manpower limitation and within one month, the task of correcting over 200,000 NID cards is really difficult,” he said.
They expected to get more such applications in the coming weeks.
EC's another official wished not to be named said the whole process must be flawless, otherwise they would not get the salary in case of any wrong information.
“We will not provide new card without any verification,” the official said.
