CM asks Transport department to ensure zero pendency of DL and RC by June 15

Move aimed at giving major relief to people of the state

Chandigarh: In a major step aimed at mitigating the woes of common man, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday asked the Transport department to ensure zero pendency of the Driving License (DL) and Registration Certificate (RC) of vehicles by June 15.

Chairing a meeting of the transport department here at his office today, the Chief Minister underlined the need for providing these services to the people in a time bound manner. He said that people should not face any sort of inconvenience in getting the DLs and RCs issued from the state government. Bhagwant Mann categorically asked the officers to ensure that the backlog of RCs and DLs that had been pending because of technical reasons is cleared by June 15 by all means.

The Chief Minister said that the pendency of Printing of smart cards in respect of DL is almost cleared. He said that on April 8 only 29,934 DLs were printed which was increased to 308061 on May 29. Bhagwant Mann said that the pendency of printing of DLs has been reduced from 177012 on April 8 to 1943 on May 29.

In last one month 3.08 lakh new DLs and 3.47 lakh new RCs printed by the state government

Similarly, the Chief Minister said that printing of RC was nil on April 8 but it was recorded 347272 on May 29. He said that the pendency of Printing of Smart cards of RC is 56251 as on May 29 whereas it was 226825 on April 8. Bhagwant Mann said that in order to avoid problem of printing and pendency in future an undertaking should be taken from the company that the stock of smartcards required for coming three months would be available with them.

The Chief Minister also said that most of problems in issuance of DL are coming as most of time fee is deposited and applicant does not come for photograph or the applicant applies for two categories (Motor Cycle & LMV) but appears for the   competence test only for one category. Likewise, he said that in case of RC non-fitting of High Security Registration plates without which RC cannot be approved and non depositing of complete Required Govt. fee/motor vehicle tax is the reason for delay. Bhagwant Mann said that most of time people do not upload complete documents as required under Rules due to which delay occurs adding that applicants must avoid these issues.