The National Database Organization (NDO) was established under the Ministry of Interior as a sister organization to undertake the task of handling the data being collected through National Data Forms during the Population Census in 1998. The National Data Forms (NDFs) were designed by a committee of experts encompassing maximum social and fiscal indicators as implements for future planning, documentation of the economy, and for creation of a comprehensive Citizens’ Database. To cater to a cohesive and unified approach in both registration and social fields, NADRA was formed on 10th March 2000 by merging the National Database Organization (NDO) and the Directorate General of Registration (DGR). It is an independent corporate body with requisite autonomy.
 
 

Preamble
 
NADRA was formed to aid the government in developing and implementing a fact-based system of good governance in the country to encounter undocumented population growth and register items belonging to its citizens and organizations.
 
It was established with the objective of evolving a new, improved, and modernized system of registration for the citizens of Pakistan, to undertake the collection of demographic and geographic data. Initially, the main objective was the issuance of state-of-the-art National Identity Cards (NICs) to all eligible citizens of Pakistan. These NICs were backed by a computerized database and a data warehouse respectively called the Citizens’ Database and National Data Warehouse (NDW). This comprehensive Citizens’ Database was completed at the dawn of the new millennium and is regularly updated based on the National Data Forms.
 
Headquarters
 
NADRA Headquarters is located in the historic State Bank Building which was previously the National Assembly Building, and in its historic Parliament Hall the 1973 Constitution was passed. It has five provincial headquarters namely, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and three Regional Head Quarters located at Sukkur, Multan and Sargodha.
 
NADRA has established a countrywide Data Communication Network linking the Central Data Warehouse with eight regional hubs across the country. From here applicant data is regularly updated and monitored through direct inputs from different user agencies. The data that is regularly updated at provincial and district offices is comprehensive including statistical, geographic and complete biographic details of every citizen. NADRA has made Pakistan the first country in the Muslim world to develop a fully integrated and centralized system of registration through technologically advanced and efficient computerization and automation.

Legal Position
 
NADRA has been empowered under the President’s Ordinance no. VIII of the year 2000 to facilitate the registration of all persons in the establishment and the maintenance of multipurpose databases, Data Warehouses, networking, interfacing of databases and related facilities. Under the ordinance NADRA must ensure and provide security, secrecy and necessary safeguard for the protection of data and information and shall perform and exercise any other power as may be by entrusted to or vested in the Authority by the Federal Government. NADRA is authorized to seek advice for carrying out its work. It is further authorized to charge fees, and other sums for its services, to carry out research studies, surveys, experiments and other investigations.

Just when John McCain may have been breathing a sigh of relief, his campaign woke up to a new round of negative headlines — this time, suggesting that in defending himself against The New York Times this week, he had misrepresented some facts.

In an effort to refute the Times story implying the senator had an inappropriate relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, McCain’s campaign stated unequivocally on Thursday that he had never held a meeting with Iseman and her client, broadcaster Lowell Paxson, about letters he sent to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf in 1999.
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But it turns out, McCain did sit down with the two of them, and he himself admitted to the meeting in a 2002 deposition.

Today, McCain’s lawyer says the campaign got its facts about the meeting wrong, but insists the underlying point remains the same.

“He didn’t do anything improper,” McCain attorney Bob Bennett said. “Members of Congress all the time make calls to nudge action. Where it gets to be improper is when you start to weigh in too heavily as to what the action should be.”

In this case, Bennett said, McCain explicitly did not do that. In the letters, McCain urged the FCC to come to a decision regarding Paxson’s attempt to acquire a Pittsburgh television station, but he did not press them to rule one way or the other.

All in all, it’s been been one of the roughest weeks of McCain’s political career. So far, he appears to have survived it — and in some ways, may have emerged even stronger. Many conservatives are now rallying behind him in opposition to the Times.

Conservative talk radio has been come down particularly hard on the Times: Rush Limbaugh this week called the story “drive-by media.”

Today, the Times’s own public editor criticized his paper’s piece, writing: “If you cannot provide readers with some independent evidence, I think it is wrong to report the suppositions or concerns of anonymous aides.”

But there may also be lingering scars for McCain.

Source:abcnews.go

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1.       General.  Franchising is not a business itself, but a way of doing business. The franchise model is designed to bring faster market access through an established channel. Franchising is a network of interdependent business relationships between groups of people who have specific relationships and responsibilities. As per the “Franchise Model”. NADRA Technologies Limited (NTL) will provide the Kiosk Machine against a reasonable security and will provide operational and maintenance support whereas Franchisee will operate the machine. Both parties will share the cost as well as revenue.

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What are the advantages of NADRA KIOSK?

The system offers a convenient and low-cost alternative for payment of bills and other financial transactions in time to come.

This system will not only alleviate the problems of general public, but will also facilitate the utility companies in bill collection, financial reconciliation and easy transfer of money.

This solution will not only provide and electronically secure authenticated bill collection on round the clock basis, but will also provide a congenial and conducive environment to the customers for bill payment with added advantages of customer service, efficiency and customer self esteem.

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NADRA KIOSK Clientage

• Utility Companies
• Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
• Sui Northern Gas Pipe Lines Ltd (SNGPL)
• Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGC)
• Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)

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The KIOSK Project is NADRA’s first step in quest to provide value addition to the ID card with the following features: -

• It provides a single platform for each citizen enabling use of multiple programs through CNIC.

• The KIOSK has been designed to have maximum graphics, which would enable its use even by the illiterate population.

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Types of KIOSK

NADRA has introduced two types of KIOSKs:-

• NADRA KIOSK.  KIOSK is fabricated in persona of an ATM, enabling the user to pay their utility bills using cash as the payment instrument. At KIOSK you can pay utility bills and buy pin codes for scratch cards besides using online CNIC verification facility. Other products like e-ticketing and cash payment of credit cards etc will be launched soon.

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Introduction of KIOSK

Built on the existing technologies of Biometric Identification and Online Verification, NADRA has developed automated KIOSK for bill payment and e-transactions, 24 hours a day.

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