Editorial photo #2023529 Human Interest

Bangladeshi Received NID Card

An Election Commission staff scanning the iris and fingerprint of a voter at a temporary camp set up at Old part of Dhaka Lalkuthi near the Councilor office in the capital on 15 June 2017. According to the Bangladesh Election Commission Currently, there are over 10 crore voters in Bangladesh. Of them, nine crore will get smart NID cards in this year under an ongoing project. The EC officials would collect the citizen's biometric details, impressions from 10 fingers and a photo of iris, which would be embedded in the card's microchip. The machine-readable card will have 32 types of basic information of a citizen embedded in its microchip, Currently, NID cards are required for availing at least 22 types of services, including passport, banking, driving license, trade license and share trading. In future, it would be required for getting many more services. (Photo by Monirul Alam/NurPhoto)