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The Cabinet today gave the final approval to the draft of National Identity Registration Act, 2023 to transfer the national identity registration operation from the Election Commission to the Security Services Division, Ministry of Home Affairs.
The government is going to task the home ministry with issuing national identity (NID) cards, taking the job away from the Election Commission which has been doing it since 2006.