May 25, 2008	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 19, 1429

KARACHI, May 24: The Sindh home department on Saturday notified a five-member committee to work out the specifications for the National Database and Registration Authority’s e-driving licence project.

A steering committee was also constituted in pursuance of the decision of Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza during a presentation on the project by Nadra officials.

Home Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan has been named the chairman of the committee, while DIG Traffic, manager (operations) Nadra, the project director of e-Policing, Sindh Police, and Brigadier Khan Azam Khurshid, provincial manager, PROMIS project are members of the steering committee.

The committee has been asked to identify the components of the Nadra project, which overlapped with the PROMIS project of the National Police Bureau (NPB).

It will also work out specifications for e-driving licence project for inviting bids excluding components overlapping with the NPB project.

The director-general of the Nadra, Ali Raza Qazilbash, briefed the home minister about the salient features of the project with a special reference to the provision of RFID chips in the proposed driving licences.

He said that the project would be implemented in three different phases starting from Karachi. Later, the system would be completed in the Hyderabad and Larkana districts.

The provincial police officer, Dr Shoaib Suddle, observed that some components of the e-driving licence project were overlapping with components of the e-policing project and the NPB’s project.

It was, therefore, imperative to study the different components of the Nadra project so as to avoid duplication/overlapping, he added.—PPI