PESHAWAR: Under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Digital Initiative of provincial government, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) in collaboration with World Bank, NADRA, Economic Affair Division Islamabad has established 27 citizen facilitation centres in the merged districts.
The step was taken by KP Government for convenience of people in the merged districts to get national identity cards, CNIC for overseas Pakistanis, child registration certificates, family registration certificates, Child Birth Registration, NICOP, Juvenile Card, Bank Sub Branches with ATM facilities, E-Sahulat, Naya Pakistan housing registration, ETO vehicle verification Islamabad, ID Verification, Mobile Top-Ups, Livelihood Support Grant (LSG), Child Wellness Grant and payment of utility bills under single roof.
According to Director General PDMA, Sharif Hussain, looking at its success in the merged districts, Citizen Facilitation Centers are being expanded to the southern districts. Work was underway on 16 facilitation centres in Bannu, Lakki Marwat, DI Khan and Tank from where the provision of facilities to the citizens would start soon.
Similarly, he said, Civil Registration including marriage, death, divorce documents, Federal Arm license, Passport Data Collection Counters, BISP counter facilities were proposed services to be provided in these 16 CFCs.
He further said that Economic Affair Division, Islamabad, NADRA and PDMA KP were jointly collaborating these CFCs.
The local people praised the efforts of PDMA and provincial government and said that the centres would resolve many of their issues for which they had to go to settle areas in past.
Asmat Khan, a resident of district Tank said, “We had a lot of problem before. We use to travel to settle areas for birth, marriage registration, E-Sahulat and other necessary documentation but now we can have all these facilities under a single roof.”
Jamshed Khan Mehsud of Wanna, said that citizen facilitation centres also provides comfortable and decent environment to the locals and they can obtain their documents in conducive environment without any inconvenience.