SAHIWAL The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has launched a one-month campaign to issue Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) and B-form to all brick kiln labourers and their children here in Sahiwal. 

There are 254 kilns in the district and 100 CNICs are being prepared every day. The campaign will end on July 30. 
According to a survey by a non-government organisation, there are 25,000 kiln workers at 254 kilns. Of them, six per cent have CNICs. Dawn learnt from Nadra sources that in 2008, a few thousand kiln labourers were registered.

After getting CNICs, they have social security cards and are on voter lists. Even though the authority does not repare CNICs without the proof of age, kiln workers have been exempted from birth certificates.