The demand for smart licences sharply rose after the road safety protests in 2018 and the announcement of the Road Safety Act. In a move back to form, the BRTA has continued issuing traditional paper licences. Every day, it issues 20 smart licences at its Mirpur office, 10 at its Dhaka and Chittagong district offices, and five in other divisional cities.īut almost all of them are issued if they are only considered an emergency case. The BRTA has 57 offices throughout the country. Though the BRTA’s response has not been disclosed, IBCS & SELP was proposed to the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase as the bidder.īut this past Wednesday, the cabinet committee nixed the proposal, and decided to call for new tenders.īRTA Chairman Dr Kamrul Ahsan said he was yet to receive any documents outlining the cabinet committee’s decision. The ministry then sent a letter to the BRTA demanding an explanation. The IBCS & SELP was considered the least qualified, and complaints from Logic Forum & MSP against them during the procedure prompted the tender evaluation committee to review their case, which somehow led to IBCS & SELP being declared the most qualified bidder.Ī probe committee formed by the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry also reviewed the complaints, and found them to be valid.
The Cabinet Division called for tenders on Jand received bids from IBCS & SELP, Logic Forum & MSP, and PNMB & Babar. When it therefore appealed to the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase to be given responsibility for the excess printing, the plea was rejected. However, due to the significantly higher demand, more licences were printed.Īccording to the BRTA, there are 4,217,523 vehicles in Bangladesh, but there are 3,602,419 driving licences.īut Tiger IT was found to have been blacklisted by the World Bank. These new licences would be machine-readable and efficient. In 2016, BRTA signed a deal with Tiger IT to manufacture 1.5 million smart licences within 2022. More than 700,000 people have already applied for smart driving licences at 57 regional offices of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) across the country, including the one in Dhaka - given that a new transport law has already been enacted with provisions of huge fines for traffic violations.
It has become almost a running gag that the authorities shutter their own plans of bringing about discipline in the road transport sector.įollowing a series of inexplicable decisions, smart driving licences will not be issued any time soon. Applicants may have to wait another five or six months, says BRTA chairman
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