LAHORE, Feb 28: National Database and Registration Authority is set to launch the much-awaited computerized registration of children from April to facilitate people in getting ‘Form B.’

“Nadra headquarters Islamabad has developed a software for the computerized registration of children. We are currently carrying out a dry-run of the software to test its accuracy,” authority Director-General (Punjab) Brig Tariq Moeen Nawaz told APP on Friday.

He said imported paper with the watermark portrait of the Quaid-i-Azam and Nadra’s insignia would be used for the production of the children registration certificates so that these could not be tampered.

“The certificate containing invisible codes will also have the characteristic of machine-readability,” he added.

About the issuance of computerized identity cards to 30 million people above 18 years, he said the figure was equal to the number of cards manually produced in the past 30 years.

Nadra chief said the on-going registration of all the segments of country’s population would provide a credible database for policy making and there would be hardly any need for census.

To a question on the issuance of the ‘Form B’ to the people with computerized cards, he said it was not a big problem for those, who have moved from one district to another. “It can be issued by the DRO of the district, where the people are residing in, if the children’s names were registered during the process of issuance of computerized NICs,” he said.

He asked the people to ensure the registration of their children and got their manual cards converted into computerized ones.—APP