KARACHI: Karachi’s Driving Licence Department (KDLD) established a digital system to issue learner licenses to a large number of applicants after processing each applicant within four to five minutes, said Licence Deputy Inspector General Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh.
The DIG said to facilitate the public, the KDLD launched its paperless digital system to issue learner licences to applicants so that a maximum number could get licence and get trained – which is important for all new drivers, particularly bikers, to follow traffic laws in the city.
The new digital system also minimised the corruption element in KDLD’s Clifton branch which will soon be introduced in the remaining branches of the department, he said. Mazhar said that the capacity of all licence branches in the metropolis will be increased so that all kind of licences including learner, permanent, and commercial could be issued to a large number of applicants.
It may be noted that last year when traffic police announced its drive against drivers without a valid licence, the KDLD had issued 20,000 learner licence tokens to the applicants as a large number of new drivers had applied for the learner licences and the department had no capacity to accommodate such a large number.
