ARTO, RTO offices in Karnataka to go paperless, DL, LL services will be offered online: Sriramulu
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister of Transportation Department and Tribal Welfare of Karnataka on Wednesday said his ministry will soon introduce online services for Driving License (DL) and Learning License (LL) in a bid to make offices of Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) and Regional Transport Officer (RTO) paperless.
Replying to a query posed by Congress leader DS Holegeri, at the Karnataka Assembly in the ongoing session, the Minister said all the services of ARTO and RTO offices will be made available online aiming to go paperless and to reduce the need of people having to visit these offices.
He also added that proposals have been made for establishing new ART/RTO offices in Muddebihal, Sindagi or Indi region in Vijaypura district, Hinnali, Chennagiri in Davangere district, Sedam in Kalaburagi, Sindanur/Lingasur in Raichur district and in Kundapur Taluk of Udupi district.
“There are demands of opening ARTO, RTO offices at various places across the state. We will do it step by step while also considering the availability of the funds with the ministry.” He said.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
