Carrying hard copies of registration certificate, insurance policy and driving licence could soon be passé for motorists in the city with traffic police and Transport Department authorities set to accept e-version of the documents during routine checks.
Beginning with Cyberabad police and depending on the way a pilot project goes in their jurisdictional limit, this is likely to be extended to other parts of Telangana over time.
On Tuesday, listing the tech solutions being pushed by his department, Telangana IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao said the Transport Department and traffic police were associated with the programme. The IT Department was working with them to promote the acceptance of e-version of vehicle documents, he said, adding that the pilot project was to be rolled out in Cyberabad police limits. The Minister was speaking at an event of Microsoft showcasing the smart city solutions of 21 start-ups to the State government.
Another initiative of the IT Department is digitisation of health records, starting from the Gajwel constituency of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, a project with which the Tata Consultancy Services is associated, he said.
Later, Cyberabad Commissioner of Police C.V. Anand told The Hindu that police and Transport Department officials would be finalising the details of the project to accept e-version of vehicle documents.
“The software has to be developed and tested,” he said, adding that the broad idea is to allow motorists to furnish vehicle documents on their mobile phones. From the database of the RTA with them, the police could check the authenticity of the documents. Likening it to the efforts of the police to make the passport verification process simple and less time consuming, even while ensuring that it is carried out properly, he said the proposed project is likely to be implemented in six months.
On the presentation he made at the Microsoft event, Mr. Anand said among the several areas in which the company could associate was helping the police create e-office, a major shift from the present system of dealing with bundles of papers. This apart, there was a scope for work with regard to creating a central database of missing persons; a common app for the police force in the State and video analytics to handle the CCTV footage.
