Excise Secretary Wajeehuddin Kundi and Excise and Taxation Director General Masoodul Haque gave a briefing to the Awareness and Prevention (A&P) wing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday on the issue of delay in the issuance of number plates and smart cards.
The department is already facing a backlog of over 1.5 million number plates.
They had been summoned by Lahore NAB DG Saleem Shahzad after no notable headway was made despite a similar meeting that was held in August last year. The excise officers briefed the anti-graft watchdog that the stock of number plates had ended at the end of the year 2019. The department was facing problems in the issuance of the number plates and cards due to technical reasons.
Under government to government agreement (G2G), an agreement to provide the plates on decreased rates that NRTC was being signed.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2020.
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