DMT Commissioner General laments machine capacity insufficient to print driving licences

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By: Isuru Parakrama

Colombo (LNW): The insufficient machine capacity at the Department of Motor Traffic with the existing printing machines mainly contributed to the delay in the issuance of driving licences, revealed Commissioner General Nishantha Anuruddha Weerasinghe.

The Dept currently has five printing machines, but they are not sufficient to meet the demand, he lamented, revealing that a Cabinet paper has also been sent for the procuring of five printing machines to print driving licences.

Due to the lacking printing capacity, the printing of 800,000 driving licences is being stalled, and currently the DMT prints 4,000 cards per day, Weerasinghe revealed.

In order to meet the demand and stop the issuance of temporary driving licences, the Dept has to exceed the 4,000 threshold of printing driving licences, he added.

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