The transfer to a digital driver’s license is among the many newest within the Malaysian authorities’s strikes in digitalisation, which, along with car street tax, may be renewed digitally by way of the MyJPJ cell app from February 1 this 12 months.
In an interview with Nasional FM (click on right here for video) recorded on Thursday (January 11), street transport division (JPJ) director of car licensing Abdul Rahman Emang Anyie explains within the interview the modifications that include the implementation of digital street tax and driver’s licenses.
The street transport division fields all method of suggestions, says Abdul Rahman, and amongst them are anticipated situations resembling when a motorist arrives at a roadblock. In that occasion, the digital license is enough, and if the motorist prefers to carry a bodily copy of their driver’s license, they might want to present the brand new format license that’s the printed slip, together with their expired bodily card.
What if it has been a protracted day, and one’s cell phone has run out of battery or is in any other case out of order? JPJ personnel may have a tool to test on a motorist’s license just by checking towards their NRIC quantity, stated Abdul Rahman.
By way of street tax, it’s now not obligatory to show a bodily copy of the street tax sticker on one’s car windscreen, efficient February 10 final 12 months. The place enforcement of street tax compliance – resembling at roadblocks – is worried, the car’s quantity plate is all that’s required, identical to how a licensed driver’s IC is sufficient for the checking of their driver’s license, Abdul Rahman stated within the interview.
Abdul Rahman additionally addresses the general public’s issues when it comes to consistency between businesses, such because the JPJ and the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) in enforcement, and he says that the procedures as acknowledged have been communicated to and are understood by these enforcement businesses.
The transfer to a digital type of street tax (lesen kenderaan motor, or LKM) can also be resulting from prior suggestions, particularly referring to the changing of street tax stickers which motorists have discovered to be troublesome to take away, and might go away residue on their autos’ windscreens after elimination.
Digitalisation of companies additionally assist to scale back the lengthy queues encountered at JPJ counters, the place motorists would traditionally have needed to be to be able to renew the street tax for his or her autos. As with different digitalisation measures, the digital technique for street tax is along with present strategies of partaking the companies of the JPJ, resembling with Pos Malaysia, JPJ kiosks, and extra.
Going digital additionally has monetary advantages for the street transport division; doing so will even save the JPJ RM96 million a 12 months, transport minister Anthony Loke stated final February.
What have your experiences been to date with the digital street tax and driver’s license, expensive readers? Has it been as seamless as deliberate? Tell us within the feedback.
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