KARACHI - National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) has distributed 155,348 Cash Disbursement cards among IDPs so far, out of which 145,407 Cards have been already activated. Government has disbursed Rs. 3.63 billion to IDP families, out of which affected families have already drawn Rs 2.407 billion cash. If NADRA had not been consulted regarding the IDPs registration task, Rs 1.314 billion per month would be distributed to non eligible IDPs families in terms of food relief, it was stated by the Deputy Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik in a press release issued on Wednesday. Tariq Malik said that after the involvement of NADRA, process of registration & verification of the IDPs was made transparent resulting in efficient relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts of the Government along with their allied partners. He said that before NADRA intervention, variant versions of data were being used by various agencies. After NADRAs validation & Verification, one single unified list was made available which resulted in consensus building across the Federal and Provincial Governments. He said that NADRA had so far received IDP data of 664,818 families after registration by various agencies out of which only 289,251 were found to be eligible based on eligibility criteria agreed upon by Provincial, Federal Government and Special Support Group as well. He said that during last 4 weeks, NADRA received registration data from Ministry of Social Welfare, UNHCR and from its own Swift Registration Centres. NADRA received data set of the IDP families four times since the exercise was planned. Last data set was received on 10th July, which once again contained duplication and total record of 664,818 IDP families out of which 289,251 IDP families were verified. In the last data set two new camps of Sugar Mill Charsadah and Larama were added which were not part of the old data sets provided by various agencies. He added that as per procedure, NADRA receives the data of IDP families for cleansing, verification and validation from different registration agencies Data is then verified and sent to United Bank Limited for card printing which delivers the cards to Card Distribution Points (CDPs). NADRA staff at the CDPs captures IDPs photograph and biometrics for verification and hand over the card to verified IDPs. NADRA, on daily basis, receives biometric and photographic information of the IDPs from CDPs and executes the verification check to make sure that the recipient of the card is a genuine verified IDP. Verification intimation is then sent to UBL for PIN activation so that verified IDPs can use their cards.