Nearly 9,000 Driving Licences Printed at Panauti Center in Two Months

Driving licence printing has resumed at the Security Printing Center in Panauti, with nearly 9,000 licences produced over the past two months.

According to the Department of Transport Management, a total of 8,983 driving licences have been printed since production began at the Center on November 7. Printing had earlier been halted after the department’s mass printer was vandalised during the Gen Z uprising.

The resumption of licence printing was formally inaugurated by Minister for Communication and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel on November 7. Prior to this, the Department and the Security Printing Center had signed an agreement on October 29 for the printing of driving licences.

Under the agreement, the Center is responsible for supplying 1.2 million licence cards to the Department within six months. Department IT Director Keshab Khatiwada confirmed that 8,983 licences were printed during the first two months of operation at the Center.