Rajasthan to have automated driving tracks

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today directed the transport department officials to shift all the driving schools and driving tracks in the state in automated mode and integrate and run them under public- private-particiaption (PPP) mode.
During the review meeting of the department, she said that the process to issue driving licenses should be computerisation as the move discourage the brokers active in the regional transport offices and help the common man.
The process of making licenses and vehicle registration should be shifted to automated mode and the driving schools run by the transport offices should be functioned on PPP mode, she said.

The CM also directed the officials to start work on development of bus terminals at Jaipur, Ajmer and Udaipur and develop facilities at the bus stands.
Transport minister Yunus Khan, ACS Public Works department DB Gupta, Principal Secretary Finance P S Mehra and others were present in the meeting, a release said.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan government launched the 'Mukhyamantri Gramin Gharelu Yojna' (CM's Rural Domestic Connection scheme) to provide domestic power connections to the residences of farmers located on their farms in scattered hamlets in the state.

Eligible farmers will have to register themselves to get an electricity connections from September 19 to October 30 by depositing the registration amount of Rs. 100, Energy Minister Pushpendra Singh said today.

He said under the scheme, farmers will have to remain in their farms and there is no scheme in present for issuing power connections in such non-residential/non-living areas.
In view of rising demand for such connections, the scheme has been started.