A learner driver taking a test at a driver training and testing center in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Việt Hùng

HÀ NỘI — The Hà Nội’s Department of Transport, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Security's Administrative Management of Social Order Police Department and the Department of Information and Communications, will collaborate with driving training centres to deploy electronic authentication devices in the second quarter of 2024.

This initiative aims to ensure the accurate identity of trainees and prevent fraud at driving training centres.

This is part of Project 06 on the development of data application on population, identification and electronic authentication to serve the national digital transformation in the period of 2022-2025, with a vision to 2030.

Previously, Hà Nội implemented a comprehensive online public service for issuing and renewing driver's licenses to reduce time and costs for citizens.

Nguyễn Phi Thường, Director of the city’s Department of Transport, stated that after two years of implementing Project 06, which includes applying the comprehensive online public service for issuing and renewing driver's licenses, there have been positive changes in public awareness.

Thường said the number of online submissions has significantly increased, the public service software has been regularly improved and the utilisation of the comprehensive online public service has been updated. This contributes to the transparency of administrative procedures and results, increases the online payment rate and reduces costs and travel time for citizens, while relieving pressure on the administrative departments.

A report from the department shows that in 2023, the city received and processed 14,456 driving license renewal applications using the comprehensive online public service, reaching a rate of 13.7 per cent.

In the first quarter of 2024, it received and processed 11,946 applications, achieving a rate of 59.6 per cent.

Statistics from the Việt Nam Road Administration show that Hà Nội has always been the leading locality nationwide in the task of issuing and renewing driving licenses using the comprehensive online public service.

At present, all newly issued and renewed driving licenses have been digitised and updated in the national driving license database managed by the Việt Nam Road Administration. Citizens can access and look up information at http://gplx.gov.vn, he said. — VNS