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Farai Kuvirimirwa Herald Reporter
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration says the country’s vehicle population now stands at 1,2 million, up from about 800 000.
In a statement on its website yesterday, Zinara said there has been a mismatch on the number of vehicles on the country’s roads and those paying licence fees.
“This, therefore meant that there was little going into the road fund thereby making it difficult to increase allocations to road authorities. According to the Central Vehicle Registry, Zimbabwe’s vehicle population stands at an estimated 1,2 million.
“However, there has always been a mismatch between the country’s vehicle population and those that were actually paying for their vehicle fees through the formal system.
“Licensing of vehicles for the first time for most motorists as Zinara migrated from the manual system to the computerised system took a bit of time as licensing officers had to capture all data relating to vehicles into the system,” read the statement.
Zinara says data capturing was meant to assist in building the number of vehicles per class.
“By tax class we are referring to light motor vehicles with a net mass ranging from 1kg to 2 300kg or heavy vehicles with a net mass ranging from a minimum of 2 301kg and above.
“By vehicle population we are referring to light passenger vehicles individually and privately owned, light passenger vehicles owned by Government institutions, parastatals, corporates heavy vehicles , motor-cycles trailers (heavy and light),tractors etc.
“The purpose of building a database is to guide Zinara in planning in relation to allocation of funds to road authorities. While some motorists complied with the new licensing system, sadly some have not done so,” read the statement.
However, former Zinara chief executive Mr Frank Chitukutuku recently said the number of unregistered vehicles in the institution’s database were 170 000.
He said owners of unlicensed vehicles had the tendency of driving around in the mornings and evenings.
Mr Chitukutuku said some vehicle owners took licences once and never came back for several years.
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