LAHORE – 30 JUNE 2022
Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) Police Department have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishment of Driving License Information Management System (DLIMS) in Gilgit Baltistan to improve the driving culture and reduce traffic accidents.
PITB IT-Operations (IT-Ops) Director Syed Qasim Ifzal and GB Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Headquarters Afzal Mahmood Butt signed the MoU in an event held at Arfa Software Technology Park (ASTP) in Lahore. Senior Officials from both organizations were present at this occasion.
DIG of Police Headquarters Afzal Mahmood Butt informed that DLIMS will be installed at all the Licensing Centers in GB for services including Issuance, Renewal, Processing and Identification of Fake/Duplicate/ Cancelled and Expired licenses. This centralized system will help GB locals to get their licenses renewed and processed from any district of GB and Punjab, he added.
During the meeting, PITB Team assured provision of efficient technical support, maintenance services and necessary trainings to the GB Police staff regarding usage of DLIMS. It was informed that similar system has been successfully running in 36 Districts of Punjab for the last six years and will now be expanded to the GB province.
In the first phase, representatives from PITB IT-Ops team will visit GB Police offices, review their existing procedures and after careful examination, both the parties will compile a plan to migrate from the existing system to DLIMS. PITB will be responsible for deploying DLIMS desktop solutions, photo studios, machines and authorizing of properly processed cards.
In the second phase, PITB will provide customized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for integration with existing systems, data collection, updates, security protocols and centralized dashboard to GB Police staff to analyze regional trends based on data.
On the other hand, GB Police will provide initial data to PITB, coordinate with all the centers to use APIs to push data into the new database and host the applications on their data centers for necessary services.