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Single window system in RTOs a big success: Minister

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Applications for driving licences disposed of in three days

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Transport Minister Uma Shankar Gupta said here on Tuesday that his department was laying special emphasis on computerisation of its activities and every regional transport office (RTO) in the State has the single-window system equipped with Smart Card facility for issuing the driving licences and vehicle registrations.

Talking exclusively to The Hindu , Mr. Gupta said two lakhs people have so far benefited from the single window system that has been introduced at the RTO offices. Under this system, applications for driving licences and registration of vehicles are attended to and disposed of within three days, he said adding that the idea behind the single window system and the Smart Cards is to speed up and organize the working of the RTOs and at the same time make life easy for the citizens and save them from the clutches of middle-men and brokers.

Number of RTOs to go up

Mr. Gupta said that checking corruption is one of his top priorities.

At present there are 42 RTOs in the State and the number would go up to 46 as 4 more are being set up for the recently created districts. Since a transport office has to maintain and handle different kinds of information concerning vehicle registration, taxation, driving licences, vehicle permits and fitness, all these offices are being networked with the headquarter, he said, adding that Gwalior, Bhopal and Indore offices have already been linked to the Central office.

"We would be integrating all the information into one comprehensive system and the data generated by an activity would be easily available at the Central office and it would be possible to provide quick on-line information and ensure better services to the public", he added.

Mr. Gupta said that for ensuring better coordination, common inter-State barriers were being set up on highways for different State Government departments.

There would be separate "overload" and "underload" barriers for the sake of smooth traffic and these barriers would be equipped with state of the art electronic weigh bridges, and electronic cameras that would be linked directly with the central office.

The Minister said that in order to streamline the transport department's working they planned to go for large-scale recruitment to fill the vacant posts and do away with the existing system of filling the posts by requisitioning the services of officers from other departments on deputation.

He said that the proposal is also under consideration to arm the Transport department staff posted at the inter-State barriers.

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