MPTD has over 7,000 such licenses that were seized during the campaign against drunk driving over the past two years. Most of the licenses belong to motorcyclists. MPTD has issued a two-week long ultimatum effective from last Friday to collect the seized driver´s licenses and attend the mandatory driving classes, according to MPTD Spokesperson, SP Basanta Kumar Pant. [break]
“If the drivers don´t collect their licenses within September 26, we will not only scrap their licenses but will take other serious actions against them," he added.
Besides slapping fines and scrapping licenses, we will charge such drunk drivers with serious offense which will make it hard for them to get clearance report.
Likewise, MPTD has also planned to punish those owners and drivers who have not taken documents like bill book and so on.
“We are working in with the Department of Transport Management (DTM) to resolve such problem,” said SP Pant. Other than driving license, MPTD has over 5,000 documents related to vehicles going back to more than four years back.
According to Sudarshan Prasad Dhakal, director general of DoTM, due to lack of proper legal procedures, documentation provisions and loose penalizing mechanism, authorities encounter such problems.
“Once the license or bill book is seized in Kathmandu, license holders or owners receive its copy from the respective districts and neglects the original one. So the number of license and bill books increases rapidly,” SP Panta said.
Once we bring the registration of vehicles and licensing system under a single network across the country, we will be able to avoid such problems in the future, Director General Dhakal said. So computerized system is a major task as it will make it easier to identify the misuse and charge offenders accordingly, he added.
“We are also hopeful that within the given ultimatum, the drunk-drivers will come to get their licenses back,” he said.
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