Dhaka: The newly-launched smart national identity (NID) card will put an end to forgery as it has a total of 25 security features.

The machine-readable card will have 32 types of basic information of a citizen embedded in its microchip, said Election Commission (EC) officials.

Currently, NID cards are required for availing at least 22 types of services, including passport, banking, driving licence, trade licence and share trading. In future, it would be required for getting many more services.

Anyone will be able to verify some basic information of a smart card by using the cardholder's fingerprint through a desktop or laptop computer after installing software which would soon be available via www.nidw.gov.bd.

The distribution of smart NID has been started in different parts of the country earlier.

But you can get your NID through mobile SMS too. Type: scnid<17-digit-national-id number> and send to 105. For example: (se nid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and sent to 105) from any operator .

Besides, if your NID number is with 13 digits, you will have to inset your birth year before the 13 digits number.