Driving licences, registration certificates to be produced in electronic form

PUNE: The ministry of road transport and highways had received a number of grievances where the citizens had raised the issue that the documents available in DigiLocker or the mParivahan app of the ministry are not considered valid by the traffic police or the motor vehicles department when asked to produce.

The DigiLocker platform of the ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and the mParivahan mobile app of this ministry has the facility to pull a citizen's driving licence or the registration certificate or any other certificate in an electronic form.

These electronic records available on DigiLocker or mParivahan are deemed to be legally recognised at par with the original documents as per the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000. As per the provisions of the motor vehicles Act 1988, and the Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989, the driver has to produce the documents such as licence or certificate of registration to the authority on demand.

The data related to the insurance of new vehicles and renewal of insurance of vehicles is also being uploaded by the Insurance Information Board (liB) on the VAHAN database on a daily basis now and the same is reflected on the Parivahan app of the ministry.

In light of the provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000, it is requested to consider the documents available in the 'electronic form' in the DigiLocker platform.