How to apply for pec card?

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is a government body with the power of issuing Engineering registrations in Pakistan. PEC license Renewal is required after the expiry of PEC license. So, How to renewal Pakistan Engineering Council Membership is the question? PEC has 3 Registration departments

1. Engineer registration

2. Contractor / Operator registration

3. Consulting Engineer Registration

PEC issue registration certificates for a period of 1 to 3 years. After the PEC registration license gets expired, the firm or engineer has to apply renewal with PEC. Moreover, How to renew PEC license 2022 or how to renew construction company license is important.

Therefore, PEC firm renewal is an easy process for engineers but the difficult process to renew contractor/operator license. PEC firm renewal 2020 is delayed due to COVID-19, the renewal will start once corona lockdown gets open.

Persons having 4 years of engineering qualification from PEC recognized institute are eligible to get PEC registration as Engineer.  There are 2 titles for Engineers in which Engineers get registered i-e Registered Engineer (RE) & Professional Engineer (PE). A fresh graduate gets PEC registration as Registered Engineer also called RE Engineer. Engineers registered with Pakistan Engineering Council PEC are also known as PEC members

A fresh RE engineer gets 5 PCP (Professional Credit Points) points with new PEC registration. PEC registered Engineer gets eligible to apply for any post in BPS-17 with government, semi-government or private organizations.

After completing all the credit requirements of the degree, an engineer can apply for PEC registration. Now, PEC registration as an engineer can be applied online through PEC online registration portal. Step by step procedure is as under

2. Portal will ask, do you have PEC number or not? If you already have PEC registration number, you have to log in your account. If you don’t have PEC number yet, you have to create a new account

3. Fill all the information required by the portal – Information required by portal PEC has to be filled very accurately.

4. Upload passport size picture with blue or white background. Image size should not be larger than 512KB

5. upload signatures on a white page, also upload all the qualification degrees scanned copies. Because, the recommended file format is JPG.

6. Pay fee of Rs 2000 through bank challan in HBL or MCB. For PEC fee details, click here

7. Sample PEC bank challan form is shown below. PEC deposit slips are available in HBL, Civic Center Branch (Branch code 0602), Islamabad. However, same PEC fee slip is applicable for constructors, Engineers and Consultants/Operator fee slip. Firms or Engineers can deposit Payment of annual renewal through this PEC Challan form.

PEC Registration challan form is shown in the picture below.

For PEC Bank Account & PEC challan form details, please click here

Pakistan engineering council (PEC) gives Professional Engineer title to engineers who qualifies EPE exam. To become a professional engineer (PE), a registered engineer has to pass the EPE (Engineering Practicing Exam). PEC Engineers department conducts EPE exams each year, for details keep visiting PEC website.

A registered engineer is eligible to apply for EPE exam only if

PEC issues registration to Engineers for a period of up to 3 years. When PEC number got expired, an engineer has to apply renewal of expired PEC registration. There are 2 types of Engineers according to fee payment. However, if you have paid Lifetime membership fee, then you have to apply online just for renewal without PEC bank challan. PEC renewal fee for registered engineer is Rs 2000 for the lifetime subscription.

Once you have applied online, you will get renewed PEC card within 2 to 3 weeks. If you have paid yearly subscription, then you have to upload PEC paid challan while applying renewal online.

PEC gives value to Professional Engineers (PE) over registered engineers (RE). Professional engineer PEC card can also be renewed online. PE card may or may not be lifetime.

However, if a professional engineer pay lifetime membership fee, he will not pay any fee next time. He just has to apply renewal after every 3 years to update his records with PEC. In short, Lifetime members engineers will be exempted from the payment of rest of life.

If professional engineer registration card expired and he is not lifetime member. Then, he will also pay and upload PEC bank challan on Engineer online registration portal.

While applying PEC renewal, the applicant has to select the domicile or residence province. Before 2017, PEC HQ Islamabad prints all the renewed, upgraded and new registration cards. But, now PEC has divided the PEC registration certificates printing facilities on provincial basis. Following are the details where PEC new or renewal card will be printed.

Engineers registration and renewals are now online. PEC Renewal form for registered engineers is not required as Engineers can apply for renewal by just PEC portal login,

No, Pakistan Engineering Council PEC considers BE / BSc / BS Engineering programs accredited with PEC. Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech) are not registered with PEC. B-Tech degree holders are not considered Engineers as per PEC registration Act.

All the engineer applicants applying with Karachi or Sindh address. As a result, the portal pec will automatically move their requests to PEC regional office, Karachi. PEC Karachi will receive the request, after verification PEC Karachi will print PEC card.

PEC discourages the practice of collecting PEC cards by hand. However, Renewed PEC card will be dispatched through courier service to address mentioned in PEC online portal. PEC uses Leopard, TCS and M&P courier services to deliver Constructor and Engineer PEC Cards.

All the applicants applying for new registration with PEC or a renewal of the expired card. Engineers online registration portal will automatically send all the requests having Rawalpindi, Islamabad or AJK address to PEC Islamabad. PEC Headquarters Islamabad processes the registration and renewal cases in less time as compared to regional offices.

Quetta Office will entertain all the applications with the Balochistan province address. Quetta PEC office will print and dispatch card using available courier service. While creating or updating postal addresses on PEC portal must be entered very carefully.

If the address is not correct, your PEC card can be lost. On the other hand, Lost of PEC registration certificate can make you uncomfortable.

PEC regional office Peshawar print & dispatch all the PEC registration cads to engineers to there postal addresses. The postal address must be of KPK otherwise, the relevant PEC office will print the card.

Registered Engineer or RE Engineer is a person having 0 to 5 years of experience. He may be a fresh graduate with valid PEC registration. So, Professional Engineer or PE Engineer is a professional who earns PE title after passing the EPE exam. Professional engineers may have more than 6 to a lifetime experience.

Registered Engineers can earn PEC CPD points by attending PEC workshops. PE engineers have 10 basic PCP points. PE earns 1 PCP each year after serving the profession. Any PE can have a maximum of 30 PCPs.

Engineers can apply online for PEC registration through the Engineers online registration portal. So, following scanned documents are required for PEC registration

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) defines contractors who are skilled individuals, firms or companies. Government contracts are public documents available on PPRA website or in national newspapers. So, PEC registers Constructors in 8 different categories from C6 to CA. But, construction company license renewal in Pakistan is an easy but time taking process.

There are total of 8 constructor & operator categories from C6 to CA & O6 to OA respectively. C6/ O6 is the lowest and CA / OA is the highest i-e No limit category. Therefore, constructors can perform engineering works within their project limits according to license category.

Before applying for PEC license registration, it is important to know the categories, their limits, their annual fee etc. The table below shows limits of PEC license

For PEC Constructors firm category limits, get more information by clicking here

Operators registered with Pakistan Engineering Council operate government tolls and parking. Operators can get PEC registration in 1 of the 8 categories. Limits of PEC Operators categories are available in the table below

PEC has introduced an online portal for constructor registration in 2018. But, online portal is only operational for C2 and above categories. C6 to C3 categories cannot apply online, they have to apply manually. Likewise, firms in category C2, C1, Cb & CA can apply online very easily by creating an online account on PEC portal.

PEC portal for the firm is online platform to facilitate contractors operators in registered in category C2 or above. Hence, for online registration of PEC firm in category C2 or above, click here. Online PEC contractors registration portal or PEC Renewal portal is as under

Pakistan Engineering Council PEC issues license to constructors, operators and consultants for 1- 3 financial years. Furthermore, PEC registered firm with an expired license will apply for PEC firm license renewal by submitting renewal application. PEC Contractors Registration Fee details are available in our article. You can visit out PEC contractor registration fee and annual renewal fee click here.

According to PEC registration, C6 is a basic and initial category. For C6 expired license, following are the requirements for C6 PEC renewal for year 2020-21

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) renewal forms are available online on PEC website. Because, there are different sections in Downloads, to download engineer registration and renewal forms, click here. But, After downloading and filling application forms, engineers/firms can apply PEC renewal.

PEC Renewal form for all categories are available to download in the download section. Above all, you can also download PEC Registration Policy 2017 by clicking here.

PEC Registration form is available in download section of PEC official website i-e www.pec.org.pk. So, for downloading PEC registration form, click here .

PEC Firm registration renewal / PEC company registration renewal can be applied without any extra surcharge or late fee before 30th Sept, each year. However, PEC starts accepting applications after 5th May each year

Documents required for Engineer registration renewal & PEC Contractor license renewal are available publically on PEC website. Downloaded application completely filled with the required documents attached. Hence, the following documents are required for the renewal of PEC registration license. Details are as under

Following are benefits of getting PEC registration as Engineer in Pakistan

There are many benefits of getting registration with Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) as PEC contractor or PEC Operator. Moreover, without a valid PEC license executing work is not acceptable. But, it is very difficult to get government contracts or even participate in the tendering bidding process.

If PEC registration card/certificate is missing, then engineers or contractors operators may be in hot water. Engineer or contractor must report PEC about missing card as soon as possible. An engineer can apply duplicate card using Engineers registration portal login / PEC Renewal login.

Contractor operators above C3 / O3 can use contractor registration portal to apply for the duplicate card online. PEC firms in categories C3 or below must apply manually through the counter at PEC facilitation centre.

PEC guidelines for Contractors Operators are available in download section of PEC website.

PEC number is the identification of an Engineer having credible respect in society. Selling PEC number is an illegal and unprofessional practice, which must be discouraged. However, Engineers must compel PEC contractors to hire them instead of buying PEC numbers just.

Pakistan Engineering Council PEC has introduced Online Compliant portal for Engineers & PEC registered Contractors. Therefore, to lodge a complaint against PEC, please click here. For PEC Complaint login, click here or visit PEC Complaint portal. For more details, PEC Complaint management system provides the facility of PEC Complaint status check too.

However, to lodge PEC complaint CNIC number, E-mail and cell number are to be available. PEC HQ Islamabad receives all the complaints from PEC Complaint portal and address accordingly.PEC Offices

Pakistan Engineering Council PEC Headquater is located in Islamabad, the Capital of Pakistan. However, PEC regional offices are located in every provincial capital throughout Pakistan.

All the firms registered with PEC must renew their license every year. PEC contractor licenses, PEC Operator licenses & PEC Engineers cards gets expired on 30 June, Each year. For PEC Firm Renewal, firm will pay renewal fee through PEC Firm Renewal challan form.

PEC license renewal fee details are available in the table above. For information on PEC Firm Renewal requirements, click here. Likewise, PEC firm registration renewal form can be downloaded from PEC website. Click here for downloading PEC firm registration challan form. C6 firm renewal without an engineer is not possible. Hiring an Engineer is mandatory for all categories

Renewal of PEC licenses/cards are due every year. Moreover, firms can get renewal up to 3 years by paying fee for a number of years for which renewal is desired. Firms/companies can submit application for renewal manually through PEC facilitation centres up to category C3. Whereas, categories above C3 online renewal can be applied using Portals registration portal. To download PEC application forms, click here

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Also Read: How to Upgrade PEC license in higher category or PEC License Upgradation?

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