DERA GHAZI KHAN: After the Punjab government directed the Bank of Punjab and stamp vendors to issue e-stamps (non-judicial) on a white paper with QR code and bar code in 32 districts, a majority of venders having no facility of the internet and computers, have appealed to Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to provide them subsidized computers and cyber net for excursively e-stamp issue.

One such vendor, Rafique Ahmed said that since the beginning of the regime, their commission had been 4%, which was now reduced to 3%.

He said most of the stamp paper vendors belonged to poor and working-class families and they could not even afford to buy a computer and printer.

He urged the government to provide them chambers as most of the stamp vendors sell stamp papers on makeshift arrangements in front of chambers of lawyers.

The Punjab government has directed Punjab Bank and stamp vendors through a notification under section 12 of the Punjab e-stamp Rules of 2016 to issue e-stamp on white paper with QR code, bar code along with a 16-digit unique identification number with effect from Jan 1, 2022.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2021