The driver's license issued earlier had 18 features, and features including intelligent QR and readable zones were added.
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Driver's licenses have started being printed with additional features. Earlier, the licenses that service recipients received had a total of 18 features. But now the licenses that service recipients will receive have 39 features. The Security Printing Center has said that features such as intelligent QR, readable zone, visible to the naked eye, visible with the help of equipment, and visible only from the lab have been added.
Two QRs have been placed on the front and back of the printed license, in which the QR center and the back of the service recipient and the traffic police can scan and view. Devraj Dhungana, executive director of the Security Printing Center, claims that the license printed now is strong in terms of security. 'Previously, there was a chip in the license, now it is not just a QR, it is an intelligent QR,' he said, 'It has five layers.' The detailed QR on the license will be visible separately by the traffic police and the service recipient. For that, the traffic police will be given a ‘code’ accordingly.
‘For license checking, the traffic police are given a separate ‘key’, which the traffic police should install in their system,’ he said, ‘after that, the details of the service recipient as kept by the Department of Transport Management will be available.’ Service recipients will only be able to see their general details while scanning QR.
‘The access that an authorized person of the Department of Transport Management will have to the system is different,’ Dhungana said. The center has stated that the data that needs to be stored will be recorded in the intelligent QR as per the requirements of the Department of Transport Management. ‘The work of placing the chip itself is a different technology, QR is another technology,’ he said, ‘The technology that we are adopting now, developed countries have also used the same technology.’
Keshav Khatiwada, Director of the Department of Transport Management, said that the work of adding features and printing new licenses is now under the jurisdiction of the printing center. ‘We will only provide the data of the license to be printed,’ he said, ‘all the work including printing falls within the authority of the center.’
Khatiwada says that the traffic police had a problem checking it because it was a chip earlier and required a separate device to read it. ‘Now, QR has been arranged, and we can also view it from our smart mobiles,’ he said.
The Security Printing Center claims that from 1st Shrawan, service recipients will not have to carry receipts for paying revenue. According to the Security Printing Center, from 1st Shrawan, service recipients will not have to carry receipts for paying revenue for new and renewal. For that, printing is being done according to the data received from 42 Transport Management Offices across the country every day for old and new licenses, said Dhungana, the center’s director. The number of service recipients who have paid revenue from the Transport Management Office is on average 3,000.
‘Currently, 40,000 licenses are being printed every day. As per the agreement reached between the department and the center on 13 Kartik, we will print 1.2 million licenses by 12 Baisakh,’ Dhungana said. ‘We have printed 900,000 by Wednesday.’ An agreement was reached between the department and the center on 4 Baisakh to print an additional 1.7 million. ‘We have printed the licenses as per the agreement in the first lot. In the meantime, we are also printing them according to the revenue payment data received through the department,’ Dhungana said. ‘From 1 Shrawan, no service recipient will have to carry a receipt for paying revenue.’
Service recipients have been forced to carry a receipt for paying revenue for renewal and new licenses since 2022. The licenses printed by the center are being sent to the concerned transport office through the Postal Service Department, said Khatiwada, Director of the Transport Management Department. ‘There are a large number of licenses in the transport offices in the Kathmandu Valley,’ he said, ‘The work of printing and sending out old licenses of those offices is underway, and it is now in the final stages.’
The 100 agenda for governance reforms approved by the cabinet meeting held on Chaitra 13 after Balendra Shah became the Prime Minister, mentions 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 underway accordingly.
