650,000 number plates, 450,000 licences stuck — do you believe RMV's 6-month fix?

The RMV says it will clear a backlog of 650,000 pending number plates and 450,000 driving licences within six months, announced by the Commissioner General on October 20. This isn't the first promise — a near-identical six-month timeline was given back in September too, and a parliamentary committee has now ordered a probe into why the delays happened in the first place. Meanwhile, plenty of owners are stuck driving on temporary permits or expired paperwork because the real documents never turned up. One side says this is just an understaffed system catching up, and six months is a fair target now that new registration centres are opening in Gampaha, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Hambantota and Jaffna. The other side points out we heard "six months" before and nothing moved, so why trust the same number twice — especially when people are the ones getting flagged at checkpoints for paperwork delays that aren't their fault. How long have you actually been waiting for a plate or licence, and did RMV give you a real date or just the standard runaround? RMV එකේ පොරොන්දුව මාස හයකින් ඉෂ්ට වෙයිද, නැත්නම් කලින් වගේම බේරගන්න විතරක්ද?