Higher Management Committee reviews ID card printing and delivery rates

The Emirates Identity Authority unveiled that 626,640 ID cards were printed in January 2012. This is the highest number of ID cards printed in one month since the inception of the Emirates Identity Authority. As many as 506,404 ID cards were delivered by the Emirates Identity Authority to the Emirates Post during the same month, accounting for 81 per cent of the total number of cards printed in January.

The Emirates Identity Authority pointed out that it delivered around 2.228 million ID cards to their owners over 12 months, adding that the figure was out of 2,859,625 ID cards that the Emirates Identity Authority delivered to the Emirates Post since the latter was contracted in February 2011 up to February 2012.

This was announced during the second meeting of the Higher Management Committee for 2012 which was held at the Emirates Identity Authority’s head office in Abu Dhabi today.

The meeting, which was chaired by H.E. Nasser Mohamed Al Mazrouei, ICT Executive Director, on behalf of H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Emirates ID Director General, discussed a number of themes related to the Emirates Identity Authority’s performance and progress of work at all levels.

According to the results, theEmirates Post has got 470,000 ID cards ready for delivery to their owners, while the ID card delivery rate reached around 17,000 cards per day in last January.

Meanwhile, statistics showed that more than 632,000 people received mail notifications asking them to pick up their ID cards from the Emirates Post centers across the UAE, while the Emirates Post delivered 58,568 ID cards to 732 companies at the rate of 80 cards to each company in January.

The meeting was attended by H.E. Hatem Al Hamli, Executive Director for Financial Affairs, H.E. Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Executive Director of Population Register, H.E. Mohammed Al Harthy, Acting Executive Director of Emirates Identity Authority Registration Centers, Mr. Mubarak Al Ameri, Statistics Specialist and Chief of Secretariat, and a number of departmental directors.