The Karachi traffic police has begun to come down hard on violators of traffic laws in a bid to curb corruption and lawlessness in the city. A campaign has been launched against unofficial number plates. PHOTO: ONLINE
KARACHI: Excise department will jointly work with the police department to eradicate the snatching of vehicles, said excise and taxation minister Gyan Chand Essrani.
Police vehicles will also be passed through a scanning system, he added. Essrani jointly chaired a meeting with home minister Sohail Anwer Siyal on Monday.
It was decided in the meeting that the data of the Motor Registration Wing of the excise department will be linked with traffic police, Citizens-Police Liaison Committee and Anti-Car Lifting Cell. The broker system should be eliminated from the Motor Registration Wing, said Essrani. The system will be computerised to minimise corruption, he added.
Use of fancy number plates is illegal, said Essrani. Strict action will be taken against people who have fancy number plates, he claimed. "No matter how powerful any person is, he should have a yellow number plate," he added. Both Essrani and Siyal said that soon a campaign against fancy plates will be launched in which the vehicles will be confiscated and owners will be fined.
The tender for the issuance of number plates has been submitted, said Essrani, adding that number plates will be issued to owners of vehicles soon.
The meeting was attended by Sindh IG Ghulam Hyder Jamali, home secretary Mukhtar Ahmed Soomro, excise and taxation secretary Mudassir Iqbal, excise director-general Shabbir Ahmed Shaikh and headquarter director Akhter Azad.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 1st, 2015.
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