To obtain a Bangladesh National Card, applicants must follow these steps:
The result was the . For the first time, a biometric database of over 100 million people (now over 120 million) was created. The card itself was simple—a laminated paper with a photo, a unique 10- or 17-digit number, and a barcode. But the database behind it was revolutionary.
No report would be interesting without the drama. The NID system has notorious flaws:
