ISLAMABAD, March 25 (APP): Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar
Ali Khan will inaugurate National Database and
Registration Authority (NADRA) Service Center in Rawalpindi next week.
The Mega Centre would offer all NADRA
services including identity cards, child registration certificates,
family registration certificates and aims at offering minimal wait
time to the applicants.
Giving details of the NADRA Service Centre, Spokesperson said
that the distinguishing feature of this center is efficient
workflow.
He said that at traditional NADRA centers, applicants have to
go to different desks for completing the application procedure which
includes getting token, fingerprinting, photograph and data entry
and the applicants have to wait during each of these steps.
In this new center, all these steps would be completed in one
go.
All the desks in this new center would be equipped with all
necessary facilities including cameras and fingerprint acquisition
equipment so that the entire procedure is completed on a single
desk.
He said that the new center would also have an executive
passport office where citizens can apply for passport services. The
passport office is manned by staff provided by NADRA and an officer
from Immigration and Passports.
The NADRA side of this mega center would be having a seating
capacity of 85 persons in waiting while the passports side has the
capacity of 96 people.
Initially the centre would operate during normal office hours
however the timings of the centre would be extended later on.
Spokesperson said that six NADRA Mega Centres and 15 Executive
Passport Offices in various cities of the country are being set up
on the directives of the Interior Minister, who took notice of long
queues and other issues faced by applicants at NADRA and passport
offices.
The workflow at these centres is designed in a such a manner
as to ensure efficiency and save time of the applicants.
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