The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority has justified the GHc91 drivers will be made to pay to obtain the new smart licences.
According to the DVLA, the amount being charged is reasonable.
“The 91 cedis is realistic and I have mentioned that it was determined by experts…it is a document that the experts worked on and gave to us,” Deputy Director of the DVLA Kafui Semevor said on Morning Starr Thursday.
Mr. Semevor added that the DVLA will no longer outsource the printing of drivers’ licenses to external entities as it prepares to roll out the smart drivers’ licences.
The DVLA will, from November 7 this year, introduce a new driving license and a new vehicle registration smart card.
The new licence takes the form of a smart card that contains a contactless chip loaded with the owner’s bio-data and the driver’s personal information.
The authority is optimistic that the two would weed out fake licenses and vehicles with fake roadworthy certificates from the system, as well as cut out middlemen, popularly known as ‘goro boys’, from the licensing regime.
A breakdown of the cost of the new licence shows that the authority had added GH¢91 to the existing charges.
Therefore, a new driving licence will now cost GH¢257; replacement of an expired licence, GH¢155; licence upgrade, GH¢345; replacement of lost driving licence, GH¢205 and conversion of a foreign driving licence will cost GH¢445.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
