MUMBAI: The driving licence and vehicular databases of people residing between Goregaon and Dahisar will be transferred to the new RTO (MH-47) in Kandarpada, Dahisar, after the Andheri RTO ’s bifurcation.

The shifting will entail that those residing in the Goregaon-Dahisar stretch, who got their vehicles or two-wheelers registered before 2006 (manual records), will have to get a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Andheri RTO to register their cars and two-wheelers at the RTO in Dahisar. The process of obtaining NOCs will begin once the operations at the new RTO commences in June.

RTO staffers have decided to transfer all the digital data “internally”.

“People whose records are stored manually will have to secure an NOC from Andheri and submit it at the new RTO. The records of vehicles registered after 2006 have been digitized and these vehicle / two-wheeler or licence holders need not worry,” said an official. “We have made the process to obtain the NOC easy and it will take only a day to get the certificate at Andheri and tender it in Dahisar,” said deputy RTO Bharat Kalaskar.

By June, cars and two-wheelers with the MH-47 number plates will hit the road. “Motorists won’t have to change the MH-02 registration number, but they will have to transfer their records from Andheri to the new RTO,” said an RTO staffer.

“The Goregaon-Dahisar belt has the highest density of vehicles. There will be approximately 2 lakh cars and more than 4 lakh two-wheelers in the area,” said a transport expert. The work of installing furniture and equipment at the new RTO will begin from Monday and it will be headed by Kalaskar. He is credited with introducing online registration system for learner’s licence in Maharashtra.

The RTO’s relocation had been on the paper but it did not materialize as the department had been unable to find land for office space.

