The election commission has disposed of 907,662 National Identity Card correction applications in the first half of 2025 under its special ‘Crash Programme’.
While briefing the reporters, EC senior secretary Akhtar Ahmed at his office in Agargaon election building on Wednesday said that 984,356 applications were submitted for NID correction during the period, of which only 76,694 applications were pending for disposal.
He said that the initiative had significantly eased citizens’ difficulties related to NID correction.
Responding to questions about the locking of NIDs belonging to several individuals, including politicians, after the August 5, the secretary clarified that NIDs were locked for various reasons, primarily to prevent misuse.
‘Even my own NID is locked! It wouldn’t be appropriate to comment on individual cases,’ he added.
Director general of the national identity registration division ASM Humayun Kabir was also present.
Akhtar Ahmed said that when the ‘Crash Programme’ began on January 1, 2025, were 378,836 pending NID correction applications.
Till June 30, an additional 655,200 applications were filed, resulting in an average number of 100,920 applications being submitted each month over the past six months, he added.
He continued that initially, they explored the possibility of reducing NID correction applications backlog to zero, but in practice wasn’t feasible as new applications were submitted daily and could not be processed immediately.
The secretary explained that for a long time, the number of pending applications remained above 300,000. ‘However, thanks to dedicated efforts and strategic planning under the crash programme, the situation has improved significantly.’
To streamline the process, the applications were divided into four categories based on the level of correction needed, he said, adding that each case was being resolved within a designated timeframe through document verification and hearings.
He said that since 2020, 54,76,011 correction-related applications had been submitted, out of which 53,99,420 had already been resolved.
‘I believe the public’s hardship in accessing civil services has eased,’ said Akhtar Ahmed, mentioning that the number of applications had comparatively declined in the past six months.
‘I’m hopeful that in the coming months, conditions will continue to improve and complaints of harassment will eliminate.’
