Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy
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Bengaluru: Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy launched new smart cards on Wednesday.
The smart cards will be provided for driving licences and registration certificates. Each will be valid for a period of five years.
The cards will be made of polycarbonate material, printed through laser engraving, and will come with a 64 KB microchip. The QR code of the NIC software will also be printed.
The smart cards will be printed by the service provider Rosmerta Technologies Ltd under the centralised printing facility system established in the transport commissioner's office.
Two printing machines have been imported from the Italian company Matica Fintech SPA, which are capable of printing 500-600 smart cards every hour. The initiative is set to take off later this month.