HYDERABAD: NADRA teams’ visits to remote areas urged
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Dec 26: Tens of thousands of people of Kotri and Kohistan areas have been denied computerised national identity cards due to wrong policies of the NADRA and documents of thousands of others have been lost.
This was alleged by People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur in a statement issued here on Friday.
He demanded that at least three-month extension should be granted in the deadline for the expiry of old NICs and mobile teams be sent to Kotri and Kohistan areas to prepare CNICs with the help of union councils staff.
Mr Talpur feared that if the extension was not granted, tens of thousands of the people would deprived of right of vote, many people would be rendered ineligible to receive Zakat and denied opportunities of job and education.
The MNA pointed out that worst sufferers would be disabled persons who could not to travel to Hyderabad to get CNICs.
Meanwhile, a Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party leader, Nandlal Malhi, in a statement said that at least 80 per cent of the eligible people in Tharparkar district would not be able to get CNICs by Dec 31.
He said that according to the NADRA itself, only 14 per cent population of Tharparkar district had been issued CNICs and added that even those people, who had submitted their documents one year back, had not been issued CNICs.
He alleged that NADRA agents had committed fraud with the Thari people and misappropriated their money but the NADRA had taken no action against the agents.
