Aadhaar connected all India driving license likely
Joshi's ministry ensured that the truckers body AIMTC deferred the strike which was to begin from April 1. The ministry has assured to consider their demands in a time-bound manner. This good news comes along with smooth travel on highways, as promised by Joshi.
The government will roll out RFID-based electronic toll collection across all the toll plazas on national highways through out the country by 2014.
"We intend to have by 2014 entire country through ETC (electronic toll collection). Nandan Nilekani has suggested RFID card and we have introduced two new pilot projects. By 2014, we will cover entire toll plazas through ETC mode," Joshi said yesterday evening while interacting with the public on muti-video chat, Google Hangout.
The ETC systems is based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. For this, a RFID chip-embedded sticker will be put on the vehicles and money will get deducted at the toll plazas automatically.
This will be pooled electronically at one place and later distributed among the toll companies.
Currently, vehicles have to pay cash at all the toll plazas, leading to massive traffic jams.
People from all over the country such as Bangalore , New Delhi, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Roorkee , Andhra Pradesh, Gurgaon, Udaipur, Chennai and Bilaspur, Chattisgarh asked Minister to answer questions on various aspects of road safety.
They wanted to know about creation of proper data base like Australia, US and Europe to identify the exact cause of accident is the first step towards improving safety, issuance of a centralized prepaid toll card which to help reduce the toll passage time, collection effort, hassle to manage change, commuters fuel and corruption, linking all the vehicles and their drivers on one system so that when driver visits different states the hassle of proving his identity is avoided.
Joshi said that government is working with state governments for online registration of vehicles and other related information. On the suggestion of one Driving License in the entire country, he said center will try to integrate the issuance of DL with Aadhaar card.
On the matter of issuing license without proper training, he said in the 11th plan centre had started DL schools in different states and the project will be given more focus in 12th plan.
Joshi
also
said
that
the
government
has
launched
a
pilot
project
on
Gurgaon-Jaipur
stretch
of
National
Highway-8
to
provide
cashless
medical
treatment
to
accident
victims
during
the
during
the
first
48
hours
of
the
accident.
The
government
has
already
signed
an
MoU
with
ICICI
Lombard
last
week
and
has
created
a
corpus
of
Rs
20
crore
for
the
scheme.
Meanwhile, the AIMTC has decided to defer the strike which was to begin from April 1.
"This (strike) has been deferred till further notice on assurances from the government that all the demands would be considered in a time-bound manner," All India Motor Transport Congress President Bal Malkit Singh said.
AIMTC has had detailed discussions with the officials of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, he added.
AIMTC, an apex body of transporters (both cargo and passenger) is demanding withdrawal of the hike in third party insurance premium, rollback of partial de-control of diesel prices and removal of anti-dumping duty on import of tyres saying that these issues have adversely impacted road transport sector.