By: Muhammed Ghazanfar Devjiani
Overview
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is a national sector of the Government of Pakistan that is liable for distributing identification cards to the citizens of Pakistan. Engaging more than 11,000 associates of workers and devising more than 400 inland bureaus and five international offices, NADRA is one of the biggest civil services in the country. According to the organization itself, NADRA also grasps the record for preserving the biggest biometric citizen catalogue in the world
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is a national sector of the Government of Pakistan that is liable for distributing identification cards to the citizens of Pakistan. Engaging more than 11,000 associates of workers and devising more than 400 inland bureaus and five international offices, NADRA is one of the biggest civil services in the country. According to the organization itself, NADRA also grasps the record for preserving the biggest biometric citizen catalogue in the world
Nadra Management Information system
In order to develop civil recordkeeping system, CRMS was hosted by NADRA at Union Council Level. In this scheme event of Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death are taken, which is very dynamic in nature. The pilot missions were propelled in 100 UCs of Lahore and till today more than 4,192 UCs are onboard. NADRA has delivered software, certificate paper and also imparting training to UCs Secretaries. The plan is up-and-running from more than last 3 years. Converting data into meaningful information for better and timely decision 480 computer touch screen kits have been installed all over Pakistan to facilitate the citizens providing them with following offerings
In order to develop civil recordkeeping system, CRMS was hosted by NADRA at Union Council Level. In this scheme event of Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death are taken, which is very dynamic in nature. The pilot missions were propelled in 100 UCs of Lahore and till today more than 4,192 UCs are onboard. NADRA has delivered software, certificate paper and also imparting training to UCs Secretaries. The plan is up-and-running from more than last 3 years. Converting data into meaningful information for better and timely decision 480 computer touch screen kits have been installed all over Pakistan to facilitate the citizens providing them with following offerings
- Utility bills payment
- Cell phone scratch cards
- CNIC verifications
It is perhaps the biggest fully incorporated databank in the sphere that is having together an Automatic Finger Identification System (AFIS) & a Facial Recognition System.
Features of NADRA’s MIS
- National Data Warehouse
- Storage Volume of more than 60 Terabytes
- Handling Speed of 18 Trillion Instructions/Sec
- Trilingual Support of English/ Urdu/ Sindhi
- AFIS with a corresponding speed of 16 million/sec
- World largest Facial Library of more than 47 million images (ICAO)
- Network Frames
- Linked with more than 8000 PCs
- Fortified Global, VSAT, and DVB RCS/2 WAN Links
- Automated coupons are issued and data is inscribed on the RFID chip directly by means of handheld.
- Facts based ticketing system can be executed using this expertise.
- Payment of fines will be made through Kiosk.
Major achievements include invention of remarkably fast phonetics-based search technique operative on multilingual identity databases such as Pakistan's National Data Warehouse and invention of algorithmic technique for family tree linkage in National Database is also one of the major features of it.
ReplyDeleteI have read in news paper that due to NADRA'S MIS ,they have registered 91% adults in Punjab,84 % adults in sindh,and 74 % people in Baluchistan which is a biggest achievement,may be in this way chances of fraud in our country can be minimize.
ReplyDeleteI Agree with Ms. Uzma Sahar and Mr. Mohtasim Nomani regarding the article!
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