The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will issue free national identity cards (CNIC) to people in flood-affected areas.
According to details, the chairman of NADRA said that this project has launched in association with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Women, handicapped, and people from poor backgrounds in flood-affected areas of nine districts of Sindh and Balochistan will get free identity cards.
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Chairman NADRA said this Project will empower women and people who are affected by the devastating floods.
Last year, Pakistan faced a series of devastating floods in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which destroyed thousands of houses, people’s properties, and livestock killed more than a thousand people, and injured more than 13000 people.
Earlier, Premier (PM) Shehbaz Sharif launched a plan of action named ‘Resilient, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework’ (4RF), which will be carried out in the flood-affected areas of Pakistan.
Remember that overall 801 persons lost their lives, and 8,442 got injured. The deceased persons included 339 children and 151 women, whereas, the floods and rainfall destroyed 2,087,186 houses.
