Printing of ‘license’ begins from security printing centre

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२१ कार्तिक २०८२, शुक्रबार १४:४९November 7, 2025

Kabhrapelanchok. The government has started printing driving licenses from its own printing machine. The Security Printing Centre under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has started printing licenses from today.

Minister for TAG_OPEN_div_22 Communications and Information Technology, Jagdish Kharel, inaugurated the printing machine at Banepa, Kavre. Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel said that the printing of license license has been started by making necessary arrangements despite legal confusion and various difficulties.

} He said, “For years, the machines under the security printing center were lying idle. The machines and parts were all in tatters. The place was like a ruin. We have started printing the dust. ’

According to him, the center’s machine can do many things like national identity card, passport, land ownership certificate, various stickers, postal stamps and many other things.TAG_OPEN_div_18 Minister Kharel said, “There is a situation to print 28 lakh driving licenses. ’

License, passport, national identity card etc. were always printed by contracting foreign companies. Minister Kharel said that the printing printing has been started after making policy reforms in the context of not being able to print the products despite having the infrastructure and resources.

Devraj Dhungana, executive director of the Security Printing Center, said that the printing printing press has been started after resolving various legal complexities and technical complexities.TAG_OPEN_div_14 In the first phase, work has started from today as per the agreement of printing 12 lakh copies. In the beginning, five hundred prints will be printed daily and the quantity will be increased, according to the center.

According to Executive Director Dhungana, the printing of citizenship, excise duty sticker, postage stamp, land ownership certificate and visa sticker can be done from today itself.TAG_OPEN_div_12 So far, around three billion rupees have been invested in the security printing center.