NADRA’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa office and District Headquarters Hospital Batkhela held a high-level meeting to review progress on a project to increase birth registrations and to plan measures to remove barriers to registration. A pilot online registration system is already operating at selected hospitals, and officials said the full rollout will allow births and deaths to be registered remotely through a mobile app at the union council level.
Director General NADRA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khalid Inayatullah met with Medical Superintendent Dr. Qasim Afridi at District Headquarters Hospital Batkhela to assess implementation progress on the birth registration initiative. The meeting focused on operational challenges and next steps needed to expand the service.
Participants exchanged ideas on a range of measures to boost registration rates and to address factors that discourage or prevent parents from registering births promptly. The discussions covered procedural improvements, public awareness, and coordination between institutions to streamline the registration process.
NADRA, the provincial health department, and local government are jointly running a pilot for online birth registration. The service has been made available at the District Headquarters hospitals in Batkhela and Haripur as part of the pilot phase.
Officials said that once implementation is complete, residents will be able to register births and deaths from home through a mobile application, enabling union councils to process vital records remotely and making civil registration more accessible to families.
