The state transport department is now planning to issue new smart plastic card licenses soon in the state, which will be user-friendlier.
Looking like the ATM cards, these plastic card licences will first be issued in Jaipur from August 15 and will soon be made available in other parts of the state as well. The new licence will have a microchip fitted in it, which will have all the information about the holder of the license. When this chip will be scanned it will show all information pertaining to the holder of the license. The card will also have a hologram and state transport department’s logo. MoU for this was signed on Friday by transport department ACS Umaro Salodia and officials of National Informatics Centre to manufacture such smart cards.
According to Sh.Pawan Arora, additional commissioner, Transport Department, “These cards will initially be introduced in Jaipur and will be issued in a phased manner all across the state,”. They will be more durable and secure than the licenses issued presently because of various features and will be a solution for the old licenses, which get damaged over a span of few years. People whose licences are in tattered condition will also have an option to get them replaced with plastic cards. “Old licences which are in bad shape can also be changed,” said an official in the department.
Presently, states like Madhya Pradesh and Punjab are issuing driving licences on plastic or metal cards.
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