Subsequently, the Election Commission invited an international tender in 2014. It was also highly praised by the partners of the projects - DFID, UNDP and EU.Īfter the great success of the NID Project in 2008, the World Bank in 2011 offered Bangladesh a loan to finance the replacement of paper-based NID cards with the smart ones. This was a historic project at a time when the nation was at disequilibrium and was waiting to usher in a new era of governance. This was done under the supervision of Bangladesh Army and using this database, the first NID cards were issued for Bangladeshi citizens in 2008. TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd, a Bangladeshi software company, created a national biometric database in 2007 for 80 million citizens of Bangladesh for the purpose of using it in the following elections. After six years of investigation, which included review of millions of paper-based and electronic documents, e-mails, communicators’ messages and other investigative sources, the UK agency has finally decided to issue a No Further Action (NFA) and close the case as it has not found any proof of corruption in the project.
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