Chandigarh, May 30, 2023: In a major step aimed at mitigating the woes of common man, 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 by 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 the 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………………..