ISLAMABAD: In a grand
ceremony in IG Office Islamabad, National Bank of Pakistan and Islamabad
Traffic Police (ITP), signed an agreement for E-Challan and payments system in
Islamabad Capital precinct. This partnership will enable the issuance of
paperless challan to the driver through a hand held smart phone mobile
application along with electronic receipt to driver via SMS.
This state of the art solution being
deployed by NBP will digitize the issuance mechanism as well as the payment
collection at J-Cash Branchless Banking outlets along with Mobile Wallets. NBP
will also add all its partner organizations for the collection including
Jazzcash, easypaisa and others.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Saeed
Ahmad – CEO/President National Bank of Pakistan and IG Islamabad Dr.
Sultan-e-Azam Temuri, in the presence of senior officials including Mudassir H.
Khan – SEVP/Group Chief Payment Services & Digital Banking Group, Mr. Mir
Wais – DIG Operations, and other delegates. This initiative of NBP and ITP,
will bring transparency as well as convenience for both the general public of
Islamabad and the ITP officials; to receive real time confirmation of e-challan
along with opening of thousands of outlets for challan payments for the ease of
public, as they would not have to look for a bank to pay challan after waiting
in long ques. This solution was originally conceived by Mr. Azfar Jamal –
EVP/Head of Innovation & E-Banking NBP, Mr. Malik Matloob – SSP Traffic
Islamabad and Noman Azhar SVP/Head of Branchless Banking JS Bank, who along
with their teams made tremendous efforts to bring this initiative to fruition.
Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Saeed
Ahmad said “This service offers simplification of work, which leads to time
saving, and minimizes book entry errors as everything will be done digitally.
Leveraging the bank’s financial expertise coupled with the extensive network of
J-Cash and our other partner organizations; we are continuously striving to
provide digital solutions to meet financial needs of the general public of
Pakistan. NBP will also add more payments channels to create further ease to
general public including M-Wallet, Plastic, ATMs etc.” He emphasized on continuous
training needs to ensure that the solutions creates the real benefit, although
NBP has already conducted 3 training sessions for ITP officials but regular
trainings and public awareness will bring the real outcome of this
digitization. He further said “This solution will also help ITP in building a
database that can be analyzed to further improve their systems, for enforcement
and safety, and for performance evaluation of their officers”
Sharing his views IG Islamabad Dr.
Temuri said “This is a very special day for Islamabad Traffic Police, as it
takes lead in providing the digital solution that is the first initiative. In
our Safe City initiatives, we shall strive to make extensive use of digital
facilities. We are extremely proud and happy to partner with NBP, which has
resulted in this solution, designed to facilitate not only our traffic
officials but also the general public at large. Convenience has become a
necessity of time and we are glad that NBP along with their strategic partners,
is taking the lead in ensuring not only ITP, but the general public experiences
the ease of technology”.
M. Imran Sharif born in Hyderabad Sindh, he initially worked as a photographer with Pakistani newspaper and currently working as a special correspondent in The Financial Daily since August 2007, He began his journalistic career with Daily Imroz as a photographer.
2 years after serving in Imroz, he served as Special Correspondent of the monthly "Awami Awaz" Hyderabad.
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