Lok Sabha Question No. 3854 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-09
Subject: Online Issuing of Driving Licence
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3854

ANSWERED ON 9 TH  AUGUST, 2018

## ONLINE ISSUING OF DRIVING LICENCE

3854.   SHRI KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL:

Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

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be pleased to state:

- (a) whether driving licences are being issued online by the Transport Authority in the National Capital Territory of Delhi;
- (b) if so, the number of licences issued online till 31st July, 2018 and the number of applications still lying pending;
- (c) whether pending licences have not yet been issued by the employees of licensing authorities despite their online booking;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, authority-wise, particularly of Indraprastha authority;
- (e) whether the Government is taking active efforts to further streamline the system of issuing driving licences to the masses; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

(SHRI MANSUKH L. MANDAVIYA)

- (a) & (b) No, Madam. Driving licenses are not being issued on-line by Transport Authority in Delhi but the application submission/payment mechanism is done on-line. Licenses are issued after necessary test and approval process in the RTOs. Information is available for these licenses (which includes Learner License and Driving License) from Online SARATHI -4.0 Application - which has been implemented in RTOs of NCT of Delhi in a phase-wise manner starting with IP  Depot  on  22.02.2017.  As  per  the  data  available  on  SARATHI-4.0  application,  the  total number of licences issued through this application till 31.07.2018 in NCT of Delhi are 4,03,732 and pending applications are 35,175.
- (c) & (d) The details of pending applications in SARATHI-4.0 application at various stages are provided in ANNEXURE.
- (e)  &  (f)  Ministry  has  introduced  'online'  based  citizen  centric  application  SARATHI  4.0  under digitization for driving licences to streamline the system.

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  &  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  3854  ANSWERED  ON  9 TH   AUGUST,  2018  ASKED  BY SHRI  KAPIL  MORESHWAR  PATIL  REGARDING  ONLINE  ISSUING  OF  DRIVING LICENCE

## DETAILS OF APPLICATIONS PENDING AT DIFFERENT  STAGES

| RTO       | APPROVAL   | BIOMETRIC   | DL TEST   | FEE    |   SCRUTINY |   SLOT | TOTAL   |
|-----------|------------|-------------|-----------|--------|------------|--------|---------|
| DL1 285   | 405        | 753         |           | 16 558 |          1 |   2018 |         |
| DL2       | 21         | 199         | 242       | 4      |        215 |      3 | 684     |
| DL3 654   |            | 454         | 5095      | 11     |        573 |     25 | 6812    |
| DL4 364   |            | 533         | 424       | 48     |       1449 |     10 | 2828    |
| DL5 290   |            | 263         | 953       | 4      |        736 |      1 | 2247    |
| DL6 60    | 65         |             | 1043      | 4      |        270 |      0 | 1442    |
| DL7 185   |            | 277         | 766       | 7      |        289 |      9 | 1533    |
| DL8 220   |            | 269         | 551       | 8      |        438 |      2 | 1488    |
| DL9 725   | 804        |             | 2704      | 20     |       2014 |      8 | 6275    |
| DL10 159  | 195        |             | 665       | 10     |        216 |      5 | 1250    |
| DL11 1224 | 513        |             | 1767      | 3      |       1299 |      4 | 4810    |
| DL12 179  | 263        |             | 657       | 22     |        956 |      4 | 2081    |
| DL13 184  |            | 264         | 1053      | 6      |        197 |      3 | 1707    |
| Total     | 4550       | 4504        | 16673     | 163    |       9210 |     75 | 35175   |

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