New Delhi, Feb 20: The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to explore the feasibility of creating a national motor vehicle licencing authority to check the menace of a person acquiring more than one licence from different states. A bench comprising Justice Usha Mehra and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog sought government response whether it was feasible to create Central National Licencing Authority (CNLA) to ensure that a vehicle owner has only one licence like the passport. Directing government counsel Rakesh Tiku to submit a reply by March 27 on this aspect, the court said this would ensure that if licence of a person issued in a particular state is seized for some offence he does not get a new one from some other state. Referring to its earlier direction to the Centre to have a single national driving licence registration system, the court said under the existing one it has been found that a driver could get more than one licence. "Why should not it be like the passport," the court asked.
When counsel for an association of transporters sought stay on court's earlier direction making it mandatory to all commercial vehicles' drivers entering Delhi to have special training with the Drivers Training Research Institute (DTRI) here to make themselves familiar with peculiar traffic system in the metro, the bench said they should first come up with equally effective alternative scheme.
Bureau Report