Smart card based driving license (SCDL) system was launched in Mau on 11th March 2013 by District Magistrate Shri Bhupendra S Chaudhary from the Regional Transport Office Mau, Uttar Pradesh. After completing the required formalities, such as bio-metric scanning of fingers and digital photograph of applicant, the RTO Shri Shyamlal issued the first SCDL of the district to Shri Chaudhary. Senior functionaries of the district administration & transport department Shri Sarvesh Chaudhary, Daya Nidhi Upadhay and Mehmod Ahmed were also present during the inauguration. On the first day itself 35 DLs were issued to the applicants.

The new DL comes in tamperproof plastic card with microchip processor embedded in it. The chip contains information like blood group, date of birth and thumb impression of the applicant that is digitized on the chip using SARATHI software, developed by National Informatics Centre.

The system aims to restrict the issuance of fake and duplicate DLs as the applicants will have to be physically present before the authorities to submit their thumb impression, photos and digital signatures.  Later on, the SMART card will be used at the time of checking done by the transport department. SMART card readers will be provided to the police and checking officials who will insert the card and read the information available on the chip.

A fee of Rs.300 will be charged for issuing new SCDL and Rs.200 will be charged for converting old DL into the new SCDL.