Female Union Parishad (UP) members will soon be able to officially verify National Identity Card (NID) application forms, an authority currently exercised only by the male members of UP. To clarify the matter, we are going to issue a circular empowering women ward members as NID verifiers,” Abdul Malek said. He said the male public representatives need to change their mindset and should also help women members in performing their duties as stipulated by the Union Parishad Law, 2009. The Union Parishad Governance Project has reduced poverty as much as by 5%. Naihati Union Parishad Chairman, Kamal Hossain Bulbul said: “We primarily thought that the women ward members were only making up numbers.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 22, 2017 18:56 UTC