Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India

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(ARAI), Pune, Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of
Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun, Institute of Road Trafc Education (IRTE), Faridabad, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi etc. The training programmes are designed in such a
manner to give the participants exposure in all sphere of governance in road transport sector
and to face the emerging challenges.
6.6 Other Major Achievements/ initiatives from 1.1.2018 to 31.3.2019: -
6.6.1 Common Format for the Driving Licence and Certicate Registration
This Ministry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence
and Cerciate of Registration for whole country in order to ensure the similarity in the format
of such certicate across the states and the quality the quality of cards.
The option of providing a paper or booklet based driving licence or the registration certicate
has been done away with. Such certicates can only be provided in two types of cards viz. a
PVC based or a Polycarbonate one. Detailed specications have been prescribed by the
Government in the notication issued. The enriched specications are of high standard and
would enable a durable and quality cards. The State Government have been provided with
an option to decide on the type of material of the card. Further, the optional features of
providing a chip based smart card or further an option of providing a contact less features
(NFC) has also been provided which the state can prescribe.
A QR code has been prescribed on the cards. This would enable easy linking and access and
validation of the information on the cards with the SARATHI or VAHAN database. As the
Ministry had recently issued amendments of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 enabling
transport related documents in Electronic Form the QR would facilitate the enforcement
authorities.
6.6.2 Removal of Requirement of NoC for the renewal/change of address in the Driving Licence
Ministry had sent an advisory dated 28th February, 2019 to all the States/UTs directing the
licencing authorities to stop and discontinue old process of verication in manual mode by
asking to submit NoC and follow the online verication of the driving licences for facilitation
of the citizens.
6.7 Rules Regulations
(i) Rules of Road regulation
This Ministry videG.S.R 634(E) dated 23.06.2017 has notied the duty of road users
towards other road users and the general public and use of roads by vehicles

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