Jalandhar, May 29, 2017: In a step aimed at checking proliferation and misuse of the arms and ammunitions in the state, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued notification for generation of Unique Identification Number (UIN) for every arms license issued on or before March 31, 2017 in the NDAL-ALIS (National Database of Arms License- Arms License Issuance) system developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
In order to apprise the senior officers of the civil and Police administration about this notification a State Level technical workshop was held today at Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur.
This workshop was attended by Commissioners of Police, Deputy Commissioners, Deputy Inspector Generals and Senior Superintendents of Police (SSP) of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Ranges.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jalandhar Varinder Kumar Sharma, who also attended the workshop, said that the Home Ministry has notified in Rule 11 of Arms Rules, 2016 for the generation of this UIN.
He said that proliferation of arms license is a serious challenge to the internal security of the country and providing the proposed UIN would create/ update a dynamic central database of arms license issued across the country.