RAWALPINDI, Nov 3: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) employees are charging people for the delivery of National Identity Cards (NICs), citizens have complained.

The residents said Nadra had imposed a Rs35 fee for the issuance of an NIC and specified that no separate charges would be imposed on the delivery of the cards. However, the delivery-men are trying to take advantage of the people’s ignorance and lack of knowledge of the actual procedures.

“The delivery-man showed me my NIC and asked for a payment of Rs100. When I told him that I had paid the charges, he said these were the delivery charges,” said Shamim, a resident of Dhoke Hassu.

The people have demanded of the Nadra director-general that honest people be entrusted with the NIC-delivery service.

Having prepared the NICs of all those people in Rawalpindi who had submitted the forms about four months back, Nadra recently started the cards’ delivery.