A joint action plan is needed to receive payment of fines for violations of motor vehicle taxes and traffic laws, after April 3, 2025, and no number plate will be acceptable across the province except for vehicles with new Ajrak number plates, said Sindh Excise and Taxation Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla.
Officials said an implementation meeting was held under the chairmanship of the minister. The meeting was attended by Secretary Excise Muhammad Saleem Rajput, The DIG Traffic Police Karachi, NHA, Safe City officers and other officers were also present in the meeting.
Chawla was jointly briefed by the excise secretary and the DIG Traffic Police Karachi. Minister Chawla said there is a need to immediately prepare a joint action plan for payment of fines for violations of motor vehicle taxes and traffic rules; therefore, initially, counter desks will be provided to the traffic police at the Civic Centre and facilitation centres of the excise department for a one-window operation, while the timely acquisition of new number plates of vehicles from the check posts of the traffic police will also be ensured.
Chawla gave instructions that the deployment of traffic police personnel at road checking points should also be ensured in the future, in the integration of traffic challans and MVR taxes, support should be given to each other in the payment of MVR taxes and traffic challan dues. The excise department will help the traffic police by having records of due challans.
Moreover, transfers and tax payments of vehicles with due challans should be made conditional on the payment of challans. He said that with joint measures and further activation of the online system, pending MVR taxes and traffic challans will be immediately identified and all dues will be paid from a single point.
The provincial minister warned that after April 3, 2025 no number plate will be acceptable across the province except for vehicles with new Ajrak designed number plates. He also directed the excise secretary to prepare a proposal in this regard immediately.