LOG IN. UPLOAD PICTURES.
The Philippines has Zambo Mart to help propagate the Chavacano Language.
LTO licensing sites activated in Central Luzon
- Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/25/lto-licensing-sites-activated-central-luzon-426532
- Tuesday, August 25, 2015
- By Reynaldo G. Navales
ANGELES CITY -- The Land Transportation Office has activated 25 sites in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, and Eastern Visayas for license issuances.
This is the agency’s response to the driver’s license backlog issue. Allcard Plastics will be responsible of the delivery of license cards over a 12 month period.
After testing the new system for the issuance of driver’s licenses at 19 of its sites last week, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) activated 25 sites for driver’s license, student’s permit, and conductor’s license applicants beginning, August 24.
“Our effort to break a 30-year monopoly in driver’s license cards supply is finally about to bear fruit. It is unfortunate that we had to resort to temporary licenses for several months, but good governance principles demanded an open, fair, and transparent bid. We will now work double time to normalize this service,” said Department of Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya.
In Central Luzon, the LTO designated sites in Bulacan, Pampanga and Angeles City.
“We will print licenses during Saturdays and after office hours on weekdays, in order to erase the current backlog of around 900,000 licenses by the beginning of October this year,” said LTO chief Assistant Secretary Alfonso Tan Jr.
These license cards sport a new, color-coded design: orange cards will be issued to student drivers, yellow cards to conductors, and the current blue card to both professional and non-professional drivers.
The DOTC recently awarded the LTO License Cards Supply Project to Allcard Plastics, whose P 336.868-million bid was 25.3 percent lower than the P450-million budget for the contract.
Allcard is responsible for the delivery of five million pieces of license cards over a 12-month period, which supply is intended to cover demand for the next three years.