23 February 2020, Kathmandu
The Department of Transportation has brought in a mass printer and started printing licenses, which has resulted in heaps of printed licenses. The department said that a lot of people hadn’t taken their licenses although they’ve regularly visited the department just months after their trial.
A department source said, “At first they ask if their license is ready or not, but after the print, all the transport office houses are filled since they don’t receive their documents.”
Although the department has started the process of printing the license by operating the Mass Printer, the licenses in the existing 6 Lakh old lines have not been printed yet. Even after bringing the Mass Printer into operation, only around 1 lakh monthly licenses are printed, the department said.
It has been 2 months since the license started to be printed from a mass printer. So far, 2 lakh licenses have been printed in 2 months. Currently, licenses are being printed at a rate of 3 to 4 thousand every day.
Tirtha Raj Khanal, the spokesman for the department, said, Currently, licenses are distributed from 17 licensed offices across the country. Since the state government has been distributing the licenses, the distribution work has started from all the seven provinces, so there is not much problem.”
The process of licensing printing is in progress. It may take another 3 to 4 months for the entire license to be printed. Once the lot is completed, the license can be obtained within 15 days of the form submission.
“More than two lakh prints have been printed from the mass printers; at this pace, work will proceed at a normal pace in 3 to 4 months,” said Gogan Bahadur Hamal, director-general of the department. Now, daily licenses are being printed from 3 old and one mass printer in the department, said Hamal.
As the government removed the paper license and started distributing smart licenses nationwide, the balance of printing wasn’t following the demand of the license due to which the servicemen have not yet received the license in time.
The department’s website can be used to determine whether your license has been printed or not.