- Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to modify the format of driving licenses to smart card type driving licenses.
- The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence for the whole of the country.
- The online application called 'SARATHI' developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) has a common countrywide database of all driving license holders.
- Almost 15,00,00,000 driving license records are available in its central repository.
- The SARATHI application has the feature to identify duplicate records online and access information about the challans if any.
Published On : 25 Jun 2019
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