Emirates ID prints 1.151 million ID cards in its new factory

The Emirates Identity Authority has announced that it has printed 1,151,593 ID cards in its Emirates Smart Card Factory since the factory was inaugurated in mid-December 2011 up to yesterday, i.e. two months.

The Emirates Identity Authority clarified that the rate of daily printed ID cards rose to 18,000 and that the maximum cards printed on one day reached approximately 32,000.

This was announced during the regular meeting of the Higher Management Committee, which was held in the Emirates Identity Authority head office in Abu Dhabi yesterday Monday. The meeting was presided by H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Emirates ID Director General, and was attended by the executive directors and a number of departmental directors, Strategic Backup Office members and project managers.

During the meeting, the Population Register Department made a brief presentation on the decentralized printing project, which provides the service of printing ID cards inside registration centers for registration, renewal and replacement transactions.

The committee was briefed on the completed part of the first phase of the project, which saw the installation of decentralized ID card printing machines in four registration centers; namely, Musaffah and Al Wahda centers in Abu Dhabi, Al Barsha Center in Dubai and Sharjah Center.

The presentation explained the requirements of the project and the current status, which shows the execution stages and the time plan made by the Emirates Identity Authority in preparation for officially launching the project in a number of registration centers across the UAE.

Meanwhile, the Higher Management Committee agreed to form a number of dedicated working teams from the different departments and sections which would be tasked with tracking performance from beginning to end, handling all remarks and suggestions received from customers most seriously and seeking the most appropriate solutions for them as soon as possible.

The Higher Management Committee also discussed a number of agenda items for which the appropriate decisions and recommendations were made.