Algeria Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has visited a new biometric card issuance centre in the province of Laghouat.This centre's tasks will focus on the issuance and the management of biometric documents as well as secure document innovation, reported local media.The center has a production capacity of 6,000 biometric national cards and passports every eight hours, enough to meet nearly 30% of the national demand and relieve the pressure on the national centre in Algiers, noted the Algeria Press Service.Earlier this month, a statement released at the end of the meeting of the Council of Ministers confirmed that a biometric national identity card will be issued by Algeria from January.Last November, senior officials said Algeria plans to make biometric ID cards the centrepiece of an identity administration overhaul.
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