KARACHI: Sindh government’s Excise and Taxation department has introduced a new system for registration of vehicles replacing the conventional registration book with a security-featured MVR smart card.
While talking to media today, Excise and Taxation Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that the provincial government has started issuing security-featured smart cards, which are equipped with the most modern security features.
Vehicle owners will now be able to obtain this card instead of the registration book as proof of registration, he added.
The minister maintained that the security-featured smart cards will not only eliminate the menace of fake registration of vehicles but also will help law enforcement agencies to determine their own without any hassle.
He pointed out the excise and taxation department had already introduced an online tax payment facility for motorists. He reiterated that providing facilities to people is the foremost priority of the provincial government.
On July 23, in a bid to replace the old registration book with the security-featured smart card, the Sindh Assembly had passed the Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2020.
Amendments were made in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965 to create the provision in the existing motor vehicle registration law for the security-featured card to register vehicles.
National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation had informed that the automatic number plates recognition (ANPR) was increasingly used by government, law enforcement agencies, safe city authorities and private sector operators to enhance policing of roads, identifying and monitoring criminal activity in counter-terrorism.
