4 lakh pending NID applications to be settled in 3 months: NID DG

The Election Commission (EC) has taken a conception to determine on nearly 4 lakh pending positive aspects, submitted attempting to procure correction within the national identity playing cards, all the blueprint via the next three months in a divulge to curb the corruption within the NID providers.

Director Routine of the Election Commission’s Nationwide Identity Card (NID) Fly ASM Humayun Kabir made the remarks nowadays (19 December) while talking to reporters following an operation of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), conducted on the EC locations of work, focused on a network of antagonistic workers and brokers who allegedly concerned with bribery connected to NID card providers.

“We are able to try to discover to the backside of 3.78 lakh pending positive aspects submitted attempting to procure corrections [in NID] interior three months so that the opportunities for corruption are lowered,” he said.

The ACC, in a crackdown began 11am nowadays, detained two brokers crimson-handed and took action against two antagonistic workers for his or her involvement in bribery connected to EC’s national identity card providers.

The NID director extraordinary said the manpower crisis is a foremost motive within the befriend of the backlog of positive aspects.

“So, an initiative has been taken to rent more manpower for the NID providers,” he said.

“I am hoping you will look a atomize programme very soon. You are going to look necessary development [in settlement of applications] within the next three months,” he said, together with that the EC would try to determine on all 378,000 pending positive aspects interior this length.

According to the EC’s statistics, there are more than 12 crore voters within the nation. A tall number of voters have quite a bit of errors in their NIDs. But the people face harassment and difficulties in availing NID providers.