$195m WB loan for ID cards
The government yesterday signed a 195 million US dollar financing agreement with the World Bank for the “Identification System for Enhanced Access to Services (IDEA) Project' to develop a secure, accurate and reliable national identification (ID) system. The IDEA project will enhance the functionality of the existing national ID system through improved infrastructure, expanded data collection, and the provision of reliable, quick identity verification services to public and private entities.
Arastoo Khan, Additional Secretary, Economic Relations Division and Tahseen Sayed, Acting Country Director, World Bank Bangladesh signed on behalf of the government and the World Bank respectively, at the Economic Relations Division.
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