By Our Reporter The smart driving license serves fitting example of how the government in Nepal failed to implement its new plan even after spending millions of rupees. Being unable to print the required amount of smart licenses due to lack of budget and corruption, the federal government has finally suspended the regular printing of electronic driver’s licenses, commonly known as smart licenses. Instead, the central government directed the provincial governments to take over the responsibility. The government started issuing the smart license in 2015, but it could not issue the required number of cards. As a result, a driver had to wait at least a year to get his smart license. Now the drivers will get a QR code and photo printed on the receipt of the payment they made to get the license instead of the smart license. It is said that the government suspended the printing of the smart licenses after it was unable to pay the Madras Security Press that was printing the smart licenses. Now about 1.7 million individuals are waiting for the license but the government stopped printing the smart licenses. Instead, the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) said that the province government have been handed over the responsibility of issuing the smart licenses. Of course, it is a big irony that the DoTM retained the right to issue the smart licenses until the government was managing funds to print the smart licenses, and when it stopped getting money, it handed over the responsibility to provinces. It was one of the silly jobs of the federal government. Of course, corruption and mismanagement led to the suspension of the printing of the smart licenses. Even the machine which the government bought spending Rs. 100 million from Germany could not print quality license cards while the DoTM received cards from suppliers without verifying their qualities. The DoTM inked and agreement to bring quality cards worth Rs. 200 million, but it brought poor quality cards and saved Rs. 70 million which the DoTM officials and others divided among them, said an employee at the DoTM in the condition of anonymity.