PM for hassle-free delivery of MRPs

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina asked the officials Tuesday to ensure timely delivery of passports without any delay and harassment, reports UNB.
"Make sure that the passport seekers get their passports in time. Do not harass them," she said while opening issuance of Machine Readable Passport (MRP) in 33 regional passport offices through a videoconference with officials at Laxmipur from her official residence Ganabhaban.
Regional passport offices at Laxmipur, Madaripur, Shariatpur, Rajbari and Naogaon will now be able to deliver MRP. Apart from these five offices, currently
34 regional offices in 31 districts and 48 embassies/high commissions are delivering MRPs. These offices have been given 9.0 million MRPs so far.
The prime minister also opened another 28 passport offices across the country.
"Soon the people of 64 districts of the country will get their MRPs from their own districts," she said.
Hasina said that to ease the passport issuing procedure the government integrated the MRP with the software of national identity card (NID) of Election Commission (EC). "This will make the passport delivery procedure easier," she said.
She also said that to make the deposit of passport fee easier, the government selected five private banks to receive the money through online banking. "People can deposit their fees in these private banks through credit card, debit card, mobile banking and directly in the bank booths," she added.
Sheikh Hasina termed passport as a very important document for citizens and said her government took the initiatives to provide digital and MRPs to them to ensure an easy living style.
She said Bangladesh was lagging behind many countries in respect to the use of MRP and people willing to go abroad for business, education and treatment purpose were facing lot of difficulties.
The government with the assistance of the Army solved the problem by introducing MRP, she said.