Kathmandu, April 29 -- Out of 2.9 million driving licences pending printing, 1.2 million smart licences have already been printed, according to the Security Printing Centre.

The printing work is being carried out under an agreement signed between the Department of Transport Management and the Security Printing Centre on October 29, under which the first batch of 1.2 million licences has been completed.

A second agreement was signed on April 17 for printing an additional 1.7 million licences, with the centre now preparing to complete the remaining backlog.

The centre said it is currently mobilising resources to scale up production. It is printing around 40,000 licences daily and expects to clear the entire backlog by mid-July.

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