Now, the service recipient will not have to carry a receipt for passing the trial of the driver's license and paying the revenue. The service recipient will receive the license within 24 hours of passing the trial and paying the revenue. For this, the service recipient will have to pay the revenue to the concerned Transport Management Office as soon as the trial is passed. After that, the details of the service recipient who needs to print the license will be mentioned in the system of that office. 

The data with the details will reach the Transport Management Department's system through each Transport Management Office. The data will be collected from 42 transport offices across the country by 5 pm every day except public holidays and the department will be able to send it to the Security Printing Center by 6 pm. 

Keshav Khatiwada, Director of the Transport Management Department, said that he has been working day and night to achieve this work. 'Those who pay the revenue get the license within 24 hours as soon as they pass the trial. They can pay the revenue for up to 18 months after passing the trial,' he said. 'If 18 months pass, the process has to be started again from the beginning.' 

Is this possible? In response to Kantipur's question, Director Khatiwada said, "A system had to be created for this, we created it, and we tested it last Wednesday and Thursday to see how feasible it was. Since it was successful, it can be done." He said that this rule will also apply to those renewing old licenses.

It was customary to come to the Security Printing Center to get the data of the license that was printed first. "Now a virtual private network has been developed, now we send the data through this network," Khatiwada said. The department has stated that the process of issuing licenses within 24 hours of paying the revenue has started from Wednesday.

According to the department, the data of 2,933 service recipients who paid revenue from across the country on the first day has been sent to the Security Printing Center. The department has stated that the data of the transport offices under those provinces has not been received since Wednesday was a public holiday in Koshi and Madhesh. Director Khatiwada said that coordination is being done with the Postal Service Department so that the printed licenses are sent to each transport office through post every day. 

Can the center, which is printing 1.2 million old-date licenses, print the licenses within 24 hours as per the department's instructions? The center's executive director, Devraj Dhungana, says, "The department has agreed to send the data of the revenue collected after passing the trial to us by 6 pm every day. After that, we can print the licenses according to the data received in this way at night and send them to the department during office hours the next day." In the meantime, he says, the work of printing old-date licenses will not be stopped.

This is all for new licenses. But the number of old licenses to be printed was 2.9 million. In this regard, an agreement was signed between the department and the center on 13 Kartik to print 1.2 million licenses in the first lot by 12 Baisakh. So far, 600,000 licenses have been printed and 500,000 have been sent to the concerned offices, said Khatiwada, director of the Department of Transport Management.

‘Out of the eight lakh licenses issued, 6 lakh have already been printed and some are in the process of being printed,’ he said, ‘We will send more data after the licenses taken by the center are printed.’ He said that as per the agreement, 1.2 lakh licenses will be printed by 12 Baisakh. The department and the center are preparing to sign an agreement on Thursday for printing the remaining 1.7 lakh licenses. 

‘There was a budget problem for printing the old-date licenses, excluding VAT (including the cost of the license used for printing), 331.789 million rupees came to the Finance Ministry,’ he said, ‘Now even the old number will not be left.’ 

Service recipients have been forced to carry the receipts they paid for renewal and new licenses since 2022. Dhungana, the executive director of the Security Printing Center, claims that no service recipient will have to carry the receipts they paid for licenses from Shrawan. "Currently, 40,000 licenses are being printed per day, 35,000 emergency licenses have been printed so far. We will print and deliver the licenses as mentioned in the license agreement for the first lot," he said. "We are in the process of signing an agreement to print 1.7 million licenses in the second lot." The printing press is in Panauti, Kavre.

The Cabinet meeting led by Balendra Shah approved on Chaitra 13 that licenses will be printed and delivered to every household through post within 100 days. For that, it is mentioned that the postal service will be modernized and developed as a 'Government Courier Service'. The Department of Transport Management has stated that work is currently being done accordingly.

Currently, all transport management offices are under the provincial government. Only the Transport Management Department is under the federal government. So far, the department has been coordinating since the license printing facility was not under the Transport Management Office and the provincial ministry. The machine for printing licenses was only with the department. During the protest on 24 Bhadra, the department's office in Minbhawan was set on fire, and the license printing machine was burnt down, which is why the department currently does not have a printing machine.