Bearing in mind the heavy rush of service seekers at the BZTO, which keeps record of vehicles operating in the Bagmati Zone including Kathmandu Valley the government took the decision to provide services related to registration, renewal, issuance of driving licenses, collection of taxes among others, through different offices.
A Cabinet meeting on Friday took the decision in response to a report submitted in January by a committee headed by Uddhav Baskota, the then joint secretary at the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM).
“We are splitting the BZTO into three entities by April to deal with registration of two wheelers, issuance of driving licenses and registration of four wheelers or three wheelers, to speed up service delivery through the separate offices,” Sarad Chandra Paudel, director general of Department of Transport Management (DoTM) told myrepublica.com on Sunday.
Paudel said the DoTM is demanding additional 72 staffers including 17 officers for the three offices. The BZTO currently has 100 staff.
“With the deployment of additional human resources the hassles and delays for service delivery will get reduced,” said Poudel.
He said registrations and renewals of vehicle registrations; issuance of driving license, collection of tax from those offices will be conducted through one-window system.
“Driving licenses can be obtained within three days instead of present five days while new registration will be completed within two hours. Vehicle owners will have their vehicle registrations renewed within two hours,” said Paudel. He said work on digitizing all transport related data is being carried out with support from Asian Development Bank.
BZTO -- the busiest transport office in the country — deals with more than 2,500 people every day. The office issues about 500 new licenses and renews more than 200 licenses every day.
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