Over 6,000 vehicles were registered under Dealer Vehicle Registration System (DVRS), through as many as 23 registered dealers online in the districts of Lahore, DG Khan, Rawalpindi and Multan during the months of November and December 2016.
DVRS, which is a joint project of the Punjab Excise and Taxation Department and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), is aimed at elimination of bogus and non-registered vehicles in the province of Punjab.
It may be noted that the DVRS was formally launched in November 2016 by the chief minister Punjab, while it is being expanded to Bahawalpur and Faisalabad districts very soon.
The new system is helping reduction in late registration of vehicles and evasion of government tax on vehicles while facilitating the citizens in the quickest registration of their vehicles before it leaves from the dealer's showroom. All types of vehicles including motorbikes are being registered through this automated system, sources in the E&T department, said.
For this prompt technology base service, the buyers of new cars pay Rs 2000 and for motorbike Rs 500 extra to the dealer.