GRA launched its new state-of- the-art plastic driver’s licence. The new automated licence card will replace the booklet-form licences. “Instead of the paper licence, our 150,000 drivers will now be holders of this more durable plastic card,” GRA Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur said.
The programme is to be conducted in phases; the Public Relations Department of the GRA would facilitate the agency’s public education campaign. The programme is expected to be extended to other regions in the near future.
It has, however, been made clear that for drivers’ licences for minibus and hire cars drivers, and provisional licences, the cardboard licences will remain until the system is fully automated. The price will also remain the same until more features are included on the licences.