1.6 Million Licences & Plates Stuck in Backlog — Whose Fault, Yours or DMT's?

Parliament heard this month that over 1.6 million driving licence cards and vehicle number plates are stuck waiting to be issued, with officials blaming a shortage of printing equipment and blank cards. Some applications go back months, leaving people driving around on temporary slips or with no visible plate while they wait for the real thing. One side says this is pure state failure: a basic admin job any private company would clear in weeks, and ordinary drivers shouldn't be the ones penalised for a backlog they didn't create. The other side points out that with crackdowns already running on tax-dodged vehicles and dodgy paperwork, it looks bad for the same system to go after defaulters while its own processing queue is over a million deep. If you've applied recently, how long have you actually waited for your card or plate? Did a temporary document actually hold up at a checkpoint, or did it cause problems? රියදුරු බලපත්‍රයක් හෝ නම්බර් පිලේටයක් ඉදිරිපත් කර මාස ගාණක් බලා ඉන්නවාද? ඔබේ අත්දැකීම කියන්න.