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Dealer Vehicle Registration System will save money and time of their customersLAHORE(By Our Bureau Chief)Special Manager Customer Care/Safety Atlas Honda and registered motorbike dealers of Honda met Senior Member Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) Salman Sufi and Secretary Excise & Taxation Ahmed Bilal for joining Dealer Vehicle Registration System (DVRS). They appreciated the system and assured their full cooperation. The dealers said that this system will save money and time of their customers.

                   It may be mentioned that DVRS is a part of transport facilitation programme of SMU under which, registration and purchase of license plates will be completed under one roof. This process will be completed with the help of PITB software and dealers will be able to complete offline registration of vehicle and give license plate and purchase receipt to the buyer on the spot. This system will save taxpayers from a complicated procedure and exploitation by non-registered agents. Under the law, nonregistered vehicles cannot ply on roads and this system will ensure implementation of the law.

Government of Punjab has established Punjab Forest Academy in Ghora Gali
Bahawalpur ( PR) Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Government of Punjab has established Punjab Forest Academy in Ghora Gali near Murree. The Academy will offer one year pre service training course to forestry graduates. An academic council has been constituted to propose syllabi for this course. Dr. Tanveer Hussain, Head of Forestry Department, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur has been nominated member of the newly established academic council. 

PESSI has issued social security cards to more than 7900 brick kiln workers :Mansoor Qadir
LAHORE(PR)Commissioner Punjab Employees Social Security Institute Mansoor Qadir has said that PESSI has issued social security cards to more than 7900 brick kiln workers while efforts are being to issue these cards to the remaining brick-kiln workers at the earliest.

                   Giving details, Commissioner PESSI Mansoor Qadir said that in pursuance of the directions of Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, to provide this vulnerable section of the society with health and educational facilities PESSI is providing best medical facilities along with medicines free of cost to brick-kiln workers at their doorsteps. Mansoor Qadir apprised that under an effective campaign initiated by PESSI, all brick-kilns of the province are being registered along with brick-kiln workers. He said that in the past, provision of social security facilities to brick-kiln workers and their families through this institute was not possible due to non-availability of CNICs of these workers as most of them did not have CNICs. Commissioner PESSI said that CNIC is mandatory for issuance of social security card and Punjab government in collaboration with NADRA Punjab has constituted special mobile teams which have issued CNICs to more than 36000 brick-kiln workers while this process is continuing. Mansoor Qadir lauded the role of Brick Kiln Owners’ Association in the implementation of all initiatives of Punjab government to facilitate brick kiln workers and hoped that process of issuance of CNICs to brick-kiln workers will help in issuance of their social security cards.