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Vehicle registration detail SMS service off

A day after DNA published a report about unrestricted access to ownership details of any car, the govt agency implementing the project discontinued the service.

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A day after DNA published a report about unrestricted access to ownership details of any car, the government agency implementing the project discontinued the service.

The report ‘Car ownership info just an SMS away’ (March 4) said that apart from disclosing the owner’s name, the service also discloses loan details.

National Informatics Centre (NIC), which developed the service on behalf of the transport ministry, has blocked the access and it plans to reintroduce the service after ensuring restricted access to information of ownership of vehicles.

Admitting that the information about car ownership, as well as the details about loan on the vehicle was available through SMS, Mahesh Chandra, deputy director general of NIC said the service was being tested on a pilot basis and leaking of the number may have led to the disclosure of the service. All one needed to do was just SMS VAHAN space (registration number of the vehicle) to the number 9212357123 to instantly get the details through SMS.

"We have blocked the service for now and are in the process of establishing the database of the enforcement agencies who will be allowed access to the service," said Chandra, adding that the service will help the police and the transport department officials to access information about vehicles.

The public can, however, continue to get registration details of their own vehicles on vahan.nic.in - the official website that NIC has developed for the transport department. "One needs to give the registration number of the vehicle and the last five digits of the vehicle’s chassis number to get all the details," said Chandra.

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