THE Department of Transportation (DOTr) said that millions of pieces of plastic cards are expected to be delivered further this year to address the backlog on plastic-printed driver’s licenses.
Transportation Secretary Jaime J. Bautista said that in May this year, around 2.2 million more will be delivered which are part of the 3.2 million undelivered plastic cards that were affected by the injunction order of a Quezon City court last year.
With the lifting of the injunction order based on the Court of Appeals decision last week, one million plastic cards were already delivered to the Land Transportation Office Central Office in Quezon City on Monday, March 25.
“After 45 days after the delivery of the one million, there will be around 2.2 million more plastic cards that will be delivered. So this will be enough to address the backlog on driver’s license,” said Bautista during his inspection of the delivered one million plastic cards.
Based on the LTO data, there will be 4.1 million backlog in plastic-printed driver’s licenses at the end of this month and the 3.2 million plastic cards that the Court of Appeals allowed to be delivered will not be sufficient to cover the backlog.
The LTO issues 550,000 driver’s licenses on a monthly basis.
