In the scam involving issuance of fake training certificates, the office of Regional Transport officer (RTO) here has cancelled the licences of 359 holders of commercial driving licenses.
With the help of some agents and alleged involvement of some department insiders, many commercial driving seeking renewal of their licenses had managed to get fake training certificates.
The Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Sandeep Saini said that on the verification of the licences, 359 licenses were found to be issued on fake training certificates. He said that the process of verification of some other driving licenses is on and appropriate action would be taken on them.A commercial driving license is needed to be renewed every three years and for this, the applicant has to undergo a two day training programe.
The department has authorized Institute of Driving and Traffic Research located in Jhajhra for training and which issues a certificate after the completion of this training. The RTO renews the commercial license on the basis of this training certificate.
The department acting on the claims by some agents that the applicants need not go to the training institute for the certificate initiated a probe. The manager of the IDTR was asked to verify some training certificate in which he identified the fake certificates.