The process of integration between Citizen App and National Identity Card has reached its final stage. Now the National Identity Card (NID) option is visible within the Citizen app. The cabinet meeting on October 2 gave approval for the inter-affiliation.

The Department of Information Technology and the Department of National Identity Card and Registration have informed that the technical test has been completed to maintain the interconnection between the National Identity Card Management Information System and the Citizen App. According to Ramesh Sharma Paudel, Director General of Information Technology Department, all necessary tests have been completed. Now all that is left is to sign the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the national identity card. 

The National Identity Card and Registration Department has informed that the necessary documents have been sent to the Information Technology Department for the agreement. "We are preparing to finish the work as soon as possible," Paudel said, "Now 62 information and services are available in the Citizen App. We are also preparing to include educational certificates like transcripts in the app to enrich it. According to the

department, about 5.5 million users have downloaded the civic app. There are 49 lakh 10 thousand 596 downloads on Android, 6 lakh 12 thousand 115 on iOS and 23 hundred 27 on the web. Currently, 62 services and information from 32 agencies have been added to the app.

Director of Information Technology of the National Identity Card and Registration Department, Subhash Dhakal, confirmed that the system between the app and the National Identity Card is fully compatible and said that the technical preparations for interconnection have been completed. "It has been tested to see if both systems are compatible to integrate the app and the identity card," he said Dhakal said that the trouble will end. According to him, tasks such as filling government forms, submitting applications and verifications will be easy. "After integrating the citizen app developed to make government service delivery simple, efficient and digital with the National ID system, it will be easier for the government to ensure access to services for the target citizens," he said. , can view details such as address, gender and national identity card number and can use the verified data of the national identity card while applying for any service Dhakal said that it will help to reduce, save citizens' time and limit most of the services to online. "Although it will take some time to make this system fully effective, its long-term objective is to provide digital services for citizens," he said. According to Shivraj Sedhain, the information officer of the National Identity Card and Registration Department, more than 16 million people have registered for the National Identity Card. So far, the department has printed 600,000 cards and 2000,000 cards have been distributed. Sedhain informed that 12,000 to 15,000 cards are being printed on an average day. Instead of Nepali citizenship certificate, the government has made the national identity card compulsory to get the services provided by the government agencies, organizations and some private sector.