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Expatriates in Malaysia set to get MRPs

Enrolment begins finally

Staff Correspondent
The machine readable passport (MRP) enrolment of Bangladeshi expatriates at last began in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
The initiation of the process has ended an anxious wait for close to half a million Bangladeshis living in Malaysia.
After its inauguration at Shah Alam centre in Kuala Lumpur, 26 Bangladeshi expatriates got MRP enlistment.
Later, their personal information including photographs and electric signatures were sent to the central system at Agargaon passport office in Dhaka and their MRPs got printed.
Bangladesh High Commissioner in Malaysia AKM Atiqur Rahman witnessed the inauguration of the first centre in Shah Alam as the chief guest.
Chaired by the executive chairman of iPeople, Syed Ahsan Habib, the ceremony was attended by senior officials from the high commission and the consortium.
The enrolment work, conducted by the outsourcing company Dataedge-iPeople consortium, will begin in full swing from today and it will be continued for the next three months.
The consortium is also planning to launch seven other enrolment centres across Malaysia for MRP issuance. The expatriates, mostly workers living across Malaysia, were ambitiously waiting for the launch of the enrolment as they had been carrying hand-written passports.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) set a deadline to convert all handwritten passports to MRPs by March 31, 2015.
Bangladeshi expatriates can take the help of hotlines that are available at the centres.
To apply for MRPs, applicants will have to make appointments before heading to application centres.
After getting MRP enrolment, their information will be sent to the Agargaon office for printing of MRPs.
Finally, the printed MRPs will be sent to Malaysia through the high commission for distribution by Dataedge-iPeople.
Earlier in February, the Bangladesh government appointed Dataedge-iPeople for the enrolment job to issue MRPs for those staying in Malaysia.
But the work could not begin due to problems in integration of the enrolment centres with the Agargaon office.
The Malaysia-government appointed IRIS that operates the Agargaon software system was blamed for blocking the integration process through undisclosed keys.
IRIS, however, denied the allegation, terming Dataedge-iPeople ineligible for the enrolment job.
However, the successful enrolment and printing of MRPs proved that the software of Dataedge-iPeople matched with the central system.
It was done using the system code which the high commission had used for enrolment of its staff for issuance of MRPs.
Currently, MRPs are being issued from 31 districts in Bangladesh and 44 foreign missions - all are integrated with the central system.
Although the Malaysia problem has been solved, the issuance of MRPs could not be possible from the enrolment centres set up in the remaining 33 districts due to integration issues.
In December last, the government inked a deal with the Polish PWPW and Dataedge-iPeople to launch the
enrolment of MRPs from 33 districts.
The home ministry last week asked the IRIS and Dataedge-iPeople to resolve the integration problem which will be verified by an independent panel of IT experts.
An independent IT expert recently detected that there was a validation process in the central system. For this, the data could not be matched and the printing of MRPs was not possible.
A validation process ensures that the data conform to acceptable formats.
Under the contract, IRIS is obliged to allow use of central system for integration. The government bought the system when MRPs were launched in Bangladesh in 2010.