No need to carry your driving licence, vehicle papers anymore

No need to carry your driving licence, vehicle papers anymore


No need to carry your driving licence, vehicle papers anymore

It is now official that Ministry of Road Transport has issued a notification informing that digital driving license and vehicle’s RC papers stored in DigiLockers are now legally recognized at par with the original documents as per the IT Act 2000 and is valid under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988.
Effective immediately, the notification by the ministry is addressed to all the India State’s Principal Secretaries, All Secretaries of Department of Transport, DGPs/ ADGPs(Traffic) and all State/UT Transport Commissioners.
As per Nitin Gadkari led Road Transport ministry, it is said that a number of suggestions and RTI applications were received in which the citizens have raised issues that the travel documents including DL and RC to be legalized on the DigiLocker or the mParivahan app. Further clarifying, the government’s DigiLocker platform built by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has the facility to pull a citizen’s Driving Licence or the Registration Certificate or any other certificate in an electronic form. It is now confirmed that these documents on the DigiLocker or mParivahan are deemed to be legally recognised at par with the original documents as per the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
it is also notified that the data related to the insurance of new vehicles and renewal date of a car’s insurance is also being uploaded by the Insurance Board (IiB) on the Government’s Vahan database. The same will be reflected on the mParivahan / eChallan app of the Ministry. If the vehicle registration details on the mParivahan / eChallan app contain the details of the policy which is in-force, then the requirement of a physical copy of the insurance certificate is also not to be enforced confirmed the notification.
The government in its notification has made it very clear to every State to accept DLs and Vehicle papers on DigiLocker and mParivahan. During an offence when the documents are required to impound a vehicle, the law agency can access Vahan.Sarthi database online through eChallan system and therefore eliminating the need of physically seizure of any such documents.

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 27, 2018 at 3:28 AM

    Good for all of us

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  2. UnknownNovember 27, 2018 at 11:25 PM

    Good News for all type of Raiders.

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  3. UnknownNovember 28, 2018 at 12:23 AM

    Good news especially for senior citizens.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2018 at 8:14 PM

      Its a very good step and good for senior citizens in particular

      Delete
  4. udsinghNovember 28, 2018 at 2:01 AM

    Good news, thanks

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  5. santhoshNovember 28, 2018 at 8:12 AM

    However, the RTO have not uploaded the DL issued in 2017 in the mParivahan to get it in digiloackers . How to get it done is no clear as RTOs are more controlled by their Agents around. Anyone know solution to get such DL updated .

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  6. UnknownNovember 30, 2018 at 3:08 AM

    Good decision. Thanks.

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  7. UnknownDecember 1, 2018 at 4:22 AM

    Wonderful decision, relief to senior citizens, ladies & all to carry some age old papers( in the name of documents).

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  8. UnknownDecember 2, 2018 at 3:04 AM

    It's useless until and unless all RTOs must update their RC and DL every second instead of taking years to update.

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