The door-to-door survey to get information about driving licence and vehicle registrations for linking it with Aadhaar cards was launched as a pilot project in Gudivada municipality on Monday.
Giving details of the exercise, Joint Transport Commissioner (IT, Enforcement and Road Safety) S.A.V. Prasada Rao said that Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) and Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) volunteers had been roped in for the programme. Special orientation programmes were organised for the MEPMA and SERP volunteers who would collect the data in municipal and rural areas respectively.
As part of the survey, MEPMA volunteers would go to vehicle owners and collect vehicle number, driving licence details, telephone number, apart from Aadhaar number during the day and in the evening, they would upload the data on to the Transport Department server.
The survey, known as ‘Organic Seeding’, was mooted after attempts to retrieve the details of vehicle owners from the available data banks had failed owing to various technical reasons. “Now, the data collected during the survey would be seeded into the Andhra Pradesh State Resident Data Hub (AP SRDH),” the Joint Commissioner said.
The united Andhra Pradesh has 75 lakh vehicles and 52 lakh licence holders.
Explaining the need for the survey, the Joint Commissioner said 80 per cent of the vehicles were personal ones. Personal vehicle owners rarely had any transaction with the department after vehicle purchase. While 1.27 crore numbers had to be seeded altogether, not more then 10,000 numbers were getting seeded per day. Hence, a door-to-door survey was essential for quick coverage of the huge number. According to statistics, 60 per cent of the vehicle owners are from municipalities.
With the completion of Aadhaar seeding process, that the Transport Department would send advisory, default and traffic alerts to vehicle owners and licence holders through the mobile apps, he said. The vehicle owners would be communicated with expiry date of their insurance and licence, apart from traffic updates. The data in the resident data hub could also be used for the quick tracking of missing and unclaimed vehicles, Mr Prasada Rao said.
