Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The regional transport office (RTO) of Dehradun has started accepting applications for all kinds of services without fixing any online appointment except for the learning license (LL) from Monday. Informing about this decision, the regional transport officer (administration), Dinesh Pathoi said that though there is a considerable decline in Covid-19 positive patients, the backlog of pending applicants continued to increase in the RTO. Due to this, the transport office decided to accept the applications for all kinds of services provided by RTO without any online registration from Monday. Pathoi informed that no appointment is necessary anymore for the services like the renewal of driving license, fitness certificate of vehicles, tax and registration of vehicles besides challans and permit work.
However, Pathoi made it clear that online registration is still compulsory for a learning license and permanent license while adding that only those candidates can register online who had applied earlier for the license but could not give the driving test due to Covid curfew.
“There is a backlog of thousands of learning licenses considering which, new applications are not being entertained yet,” stated Pathoi. He also said that though the RTO is working with 50 per cent of employees in the office as per the State Government’s guidelines, some employees have been directed to be present in the office during the crisis. Meanwhile, Pathoi also instructed the RTO employees to give preference to the senior citizens that arrive on the premises irrespective of the availability of required online registrations for LLs and DLs by them.
