The smart card based driving licence and vehicle registration system is already on in Delhi, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tripura, Orissa, Assam and Maharashtra. Arunachal Pradesh and Chandigarh have also started issuing smart card-based driving licences.
The ministry has already notified the rules for issuing smart card-based driving licences and registration certificates. Besides that, 30 states have already implemented pilot projects on automated registration certificates and driving licences.
There are 820 RTOs in India at present and 61 per cent of these haves started rolling out use of Information Technology in these forms.