By IANS
New Delhi : In the wake of the rising bus accidents in the capital, the Delhi High Court Friday directed the union government to computerise transport authority offices in the country to prevent erring drivers from getting duplicate driving licences.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice M.K. Sarma asked the union transport ministry to complete the project in a year so that all transport offices in around 550 districts are interconnected.
"Computerisation is necessary to have data-sharing facilities with all the state and regional transport offices," the bench said.
The secretary of the ministry has been directed to file a status report on the project before the court after four months.
The court passed the order when the state government counsel submitted that the erring drivers were getting duplicate driving licences from other states.
The court was hearing a suit seeking direction to the government for handing over the capital's transport system to multinationals or big corporate houses for its management.
The privately run Blueline buses have been involved in 64 fatal accidents so far this year in the capital.
The Delhi government has cancelled the permits of 600 Blueline buses and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said the buses would be phased off, as the death toll this year in accidents involving such buses crossed 60 this month.