Kathmandu, January 1
Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Ramesh Lekhak, has pledged to fast-track the process of issuing driving licences.
Lekhak, while inaugurating the transport management office in Thulo Bharyang, Swayambhu, on Sunday announced that the entire process of issuing driving licences will take just one hour.
He said: Reforms in the transport sector have already begun. Now on, no one will have to stay in queue (at transport offices) for more than half an hour to get their paperworks completed.
Lekhak pledged to put in place a system through which all transport offices in the country will accept online application forms. He announced that registration and licence renewal processes will also go online.
Transport offices have already started accepting appliation forms online, he said, adding that opening of one more transport office in Kathmandu is underway. With the online system in place, service-seekers will no longer have to please transport office staffers to get their works done, he said.
The government will take action against those employees, who want to exploit service-seekers, he said.
