Dhaka, July 2 -- The Election Commission has disposed of more than nine lakh applications for corrections to National Identity Cards (NID) in the last six months under a special crash programme.

"Under the crash programme, we have resolved 907,662 NID correction applications in the past six months," said EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed at a press briefing on Wednesday.

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Raising the progress of the crash programme, the EC secretary said now only 76,694 NID correction applications remain to be settled. "Public sufferings related to NID services have declined," he said.

As of January 1 this year, there were 378,806 pending NID correction applications. Between January and June, anothe...