The Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) has launched an e-fire licence system to simplify the process of delivering public services.

Director General Brigadier General Muhammad Jahed Kamal inaugurated the system at 3:00 pm on Thursday at the conference room of the FSCD EOC building in Mirpur-10.

With this, the long-standing manual process for issuing fire licences has been discontinued. Applicants will now be able to complete the entire process online — from application to obtaining the licence — from home.

From May 1, the issuance of new fire licences, renewals and re-evaluation of licences will be conducted online. The manual submission of all types of licence-related applications will be discontinued. Cooperation from all concerned was sought at the event.

The opening speech was delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Team Lead Director (Operations and Maintenance) of the e-Fire Licence Implementation Team.

The ceremony was attended by directors, deputy directors, officers, and employees of various ranks of the department, as well as representatives including the head of Perky Rabbit Corporation Limited, the company implementing the e-fire licence project.

Besides, divisional deputy directors, assistant directors, deputy assistant directors and warehouse inspectors from across the country joined the event online.