The regional transport office (RTO) of Dehradun is planning to initiate a mega project to digitise all the data of the paper documents stored in its premises. The RTO presently has about 12 lakh files stored in various rooms of its building and as per the officials, the digitisation would make the data more accessible to the users and officials concerned besides making more space available in the office building. According to the assistant regional transport officer (ARTO), Dwarika Prasad, there are about 12 lakhs files of paper documents in the regional transport office which sometimes poses challenges in storing and retrieving these documents. The digitisation would make it easy to access the document of a particular file and would also help in making the RTO paper-free, asserted Prasad.

He further informed that after a meeting with senior officials of the transport department next week, the RTO will plan the digitisation project. Moreover, the officials also informed that RTO has started an auto-approval facility for the drivers of the commercial vehicles with up to 10 seats through online mode for the forthcoming Char Dham Yatra as a part of digital Services in the transport office.

The transport office of Dehradun was set up in the year 1964 and files related to the vehicles, licenses, transport permits, fitness of vehicles are stored in it. Most of these files are stored in a big hall situated at the centre of the RTO building which is located on the Rajpur road. Hundreds of iron racks are placed in this huge store room in which these files stockpiled. Due to the space constraint in the store room many of these racks are placed in the galleries and other rooms of the office.