Kathmandu, November 20
In a bid to help police arrest people involved in various criminal incidents, the Department of Transport Management is planning to install radio-frequency identification (RFID) posts at major entry points of Kathmandu Valley.
The new system will enable officials to track movement of vehicles after reading the radio-frequency information kept on their embossed number plates, informs DoTM spokesperson Tokraj Pandey.
It means the system works only when the vehicles have embossed number plates. The government has just begun installing such machine-readable plates on vehicles. However, the government says the embossed number plates will be made mandatory for all vehicles soon.
Pandey says the RFID technology-equipped embossed number plate reader gates will be constructed at five entry points of Kathmandu Valley in the first phase. These points including Naagdhunga, Jorpati, Nagarjun, Sanga and Dakshinkali.
He informs that the Department has started the process to begin land acquisition and the construction works will begin after local governments will provide land. The company responsible to print embossed number plates will construct the gates.’
Besides the assistance to police, the new system will help traffic authorities manage transportation system in the Valley, hopes Pandey.
In the second phase, such gates will be established in five major cities outside the Valley.
