Universal smart card driving licences are on the anvil, the government said . “The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to modify the format of driving licences to laminated card without chip or smart card type driving licences,” Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The ministry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the driving licence for whole of the country which includes the placement of information and standardisation of fonts, he said.
This ministry through its flagship application called SARATHI (for driving licence) developed by NIC (National Informatics Centre) have a common countrywide database of all driving licence holders.
“Almost 15 crore driving licence records are available
in its central repository (National Registry). The SARATHI application has the
feature to identify duplicate records in real-time online basis and access
information about the challans if any, which facilitates the licencing
authority that delinquent drivers do not get a duplicate driving licence,”
he said.SARATHI:
This Ministry will accomplish the mission through its flagship application
called SARATHI, for driving license, developed by National Informatics
Centre (NIC). NIC has a common countrywide database of all driving license
holders. Almost 15 crore driving license records are available in its central
repository. The SARATHI application has the feature to identify duplicate
records online in real time and access information about the challans if
any.
