Africa-Press – Mozambique. The National Institute of Road Transport (INATRO) has announced that driving schools will start to collect biometric data from learner drivers, a measure designed to reduce backlogs in these services, which until now have been centralised in headquarters and provincial delegations.
According to Chinguane Mabote, chairman of the INATRO board of directors, decentralization will be accompanied by reforms aimed at guaranteeing better performance from the organization, recently the focus of some discontent and suspicions of corruption.
In an interview with ‘Notícias’, Mabote said that driver training and licensing would be more rigorous, and inspection of driving schools to this end would begin soon. Only those driving schools operating within the parameters defined by law would be allowed to continue to operate.
The INATRO CEO stated that the entire chain of interventions involved in obtaining a driving license would be looked at with a view to eliminating anomalies. The performance of INATRO examiners, the last link in obtaining a first driving license, would also be assessed.
INATRO functioning has however been struggling with constant technical problems, with the computer system used for capturing biometric data from candidate drivers and those renewing their licenses responsible for the backlogs that have characterised INATRO in recent times.
In this regard, Mabote announced that service providers were being required to resolve these anomalies within two weeks, under penalty of measures provided for in the contract between the parties, including, ultimately, termination.
“It is important to realise that this is our concern. We are not happy when we have limitations in that we trust our service providers for. This technical issue is one for immediate solution,” he said.
INATRO was recently created by the government to replace the former National Institute of Land Transport (INATTER).
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Joaquim Sitefane
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