The conveyance of machine-lucid National Identity (NID) cards is assailed with instabilities as the Election Commission (EC) nears the due date to convey 90 million of shrewd cards among the residents.
The due date closes this December.
In the course of the last seven and half months, the EC disseminated 1.8 million cards, containing only 2 for each penny of the aggregate number of cards. That implies the specialists should convey the staying 80.82 million cards in the following seven months.
The EC authorities said meeting the due date in December is very unimaginable.
A decision official, required in the card dissemination, said conveyance of the brilliant cards started on 3 October a year ago. At first there were no long lines, yet now a man needs to sit tight in line for long.
EC sources said the card appropriation has now turned out to be troublesome as the French firm which supplies the clear cards has neglected to give a sufficient measure of clear cards in time. Shortage of the printing machines, challenges confronted by the general population, and mistaken voter characters have additionally brought about postponements.
In 2014, the Election Commission marked a Taka 8 billion contact with a French firm Oberthur Technologies for 90 million brilliant cards.
The EC sources said after rehashed disappointments to meet the due dates, the appropriation of the cards begun in 2016. In the mean time, the term of the venture has been stretched out by one and a half years. The administration apportioned Tk 800 million for dispersion of the cards. On the off chance that this comes up short, the EC needs to expand its speculation, the sources included.
The individuals who were enrolled as voters inside 31 January 2014, will be given the cards.
The National Identification Card enlistment office's chief general brigadier general Saidul Islam told Prothom Alo that different activities have as of now been taken to disseminate cards to the voters by December.
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