A ceremony was held in the Directorate General LG&RDD, Hayatabad Peshawar to ink Memorandum of Understanding between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Department and National Database and Registration Authority Islamabad. The Minister for Local Government, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sawal Nazeer presided over the ceremony. Secretary Local Government Amer Afaq, Director General Local Government Iftikhar Alam, Director General CRMS NADRA HQ Islamabad Col. Retd. Sohail Mehmood and other senior officers were present on the occasion.
Expressing his views, the Minister Local Government KP, appreciated the partnership between NADRA and Local Government Department and expressed the hope that ‘’the MOU will facilitate the common citizens of the province to get easy access to birth certificates. Both NADRA and Local Government shall work together to address the remaining issues and hindrances in the smooth service delivery in death and birth registration, especially to the people of remote districts and newly merged areas he said. He said that service Fee deposit process for birth and death certificates also needs to be computerized for accountability and transparency.
He also suggested to the NADRA team that the domicile-making process may also be computerized to ensure facilitation to the citizens in accordance with the relevant legal regime if possible. He also emphasized the need to revise the existing rules, particularly the provision related to the condition of requirement of court decree in certain time-barred cases as this is creating difficulty for the citizens.
The Secretary Local Government, thanked the NADRA team for their hard work and suggested that the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be open to examine and adopt any national or international best working model to enhance the Civil Registration and Certification process in the province. He also suggested to explore ways to integrate birth registration system with hospitals.
