Dhaka, May 21 -- The National Identity Card (NID) database faces technical risks. Five 'open-source databases' are being used as main database having no enterprise support. The operating system being used in database and application servers are old and expired. As a result, no enterprise support would be available in a 'critical situation'.

A colossal database which has been established gradually over last 18 years is facing risk due to installing an alternative 'Disaster Recovery System (DRS)' by previous commissions. If any untoward incident occurs at NID database, it will hamper NID service, making impossible the printing the print voter list and more significantly losing the information of citizens.

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