Smart Card based Driving License system was inaugurated at ARTO Chitrakoot on 2nd May 2013 by Dr. Balkar Singh District Magistrate, Chitrakoot Uttar Pradesh. The district is in the Seventh and last phase of SCDL Implementation in Uttar Pradesh as planned by the UP Transport Department. Senior functionaries of transport department Shri Uday Ram ARTO and Shri Anil Mishra RTO Banda were present during the inauguration.

The system restricts 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.  The database is thus created for the license, which will be used for the creation of State Register and then National Register.

The new DL comes in tamper proof plastic card with 64 Kb microchip processor embedded in it. The chip contains information like Name and date of birth of the. The SARATHI software developed by NIC is used for providing all the activities related with the License. To secure the information on chip the Key Management System, developed by NIC is also being used. 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.