Five more centres for DLs in BBSR, Khordha

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Five more centres for DLs in BBSR, Khordha

Saturday, 14 September 2019 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR

In view of the heavy rush in the Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) for driving licences, five additional centres would be set up in Bhubaneswar and Khordha.

While four centres would be opened in Bhubaneswar, one would come up in Khordha. Besides, such centres will be opened in other districts too, said Transport Secretary G Srinivas on Friday.

 “Apart from RTO-1 and RTO-2, four more centres would be set up in Bhubaneswar and Khordha. The centres would only issue learning licences,” Srinivas said.

The centres would come up at Saheed Nagar, Chandrasekharpur, BMC Office and Siripur. Similarly, one centre would come up at Khordha town.

In a related development, Transport Commissioner Sanjeeb Panda on Friday directed all the Regional Transport Officers (RTOs) to enhance citizen-centric services in view of the implementation of the amended Motor Vehicles Act.

Panda asked the RTOs to make necessary arrangements to increase slots of learning licence (LL) and driving licence (DL). He also asked them to keep the offices open even on holidays.

“You are hereby directed to make necessary arrangements to enhance more number of slots for both LL and DL tests, install extra computers for LL test and also allow the applicant to appear test for LL and DL in the vacant slot where the slot allotted applicant is absent,” Panda stated in a letter.

“You are also directed to open office in all Government holidays for the above purpose to facilitate the public,” he added.

Notably, after the amended road rules came into effect, serpentine queues have been witnessed in the RTOs and people had to wait for hours to get their LLs or renew the DLs. Due to the huge rush, the server of the Bhubaneswar RTO was down a couple of days ago.

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