Arm licences sans UIN invalid after tomorrow

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 29

The Haryana Home Department has said that all arms licences will become invalid if not generated with the Unique Identification Number (UIN) after March 31 and directed that all licenses after March 31, 2016, be fed into the new Arms Licence Issuance System (ALIS) and generated with the UIN.

Stating this here today, a spokesman of the department said in a written communication, all District Magistrates, Joint Commissioner of Police, Faridabad and Gurugram; Deputy Commissioner of Police, Panchkula; and the State Project Coordinator, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Chandigarh, had been directed to ensure that all licences fed in the old National Database of Arms Licenses (NDAL) System up to April 1, 2016, be generated with the UIN number. They had also been asked to inform within 15 days about the progress made so far in this regard to the office of Additional Chief Secretary, Home, he said.

The spokesman said directions had been issued to upload the details of every arms licence on the NDAL or NDAL-ALIS software and UIN of every arms licensee generated on or before March 31, 2017, in NDAL. Also, it had been directed that the officials of the Licensing Authority would coordinate with the officials of Immigration, Visa and Foreigner’s Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) of NIC or District Informatics Officers and get the login ID and password generated.