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Amid rising complaints that ample numbers of applicants are obtaining Learner’s Licence Registrations (LLRs) without appearing for the mandatory online test, the Karnataka Transport Department has rolled retired an AI-powered ‘Smart Lock’ strategy aimed astatine ending malpractice and improving transparency successful the licensing process.
Officials said the caller mechanics developed by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has been integrated into the Sarathi Parivahan Seva portal arsenic an further information layer. It uses artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and behavioural monitoring to guarantee that lone genuine applicants instrumentality the test.
Speaking to The Hindu, a elder Transport Department authoritative said, “There person been wide complaints that driving schools and middlemen are facilitating LLRs for applicants who bash not instrumentality the test. The Smart Lock strategy is intended to destruct this signifier completely.”
Across the State, the officials admit that owners of cyber centres, driving schools, and middlemen often put for substitute candidates to constitute the online trial connected behalf of applicants.
“This ensures near-guaranteed passing and allows thousands of radical to unafraid LLRs and yet driving licences without knowing basal roadworthy rules. People who person ne'er appeared for the online trial oregon studied postulation rules are getting LLRs. This has superior implications for roadworthy safety,” an authoritative said.
How ‘Smart Lock’ works
The caller strategy makes the full LLR and driving licence exertion process afloat digital. Applicants indispensable present capable their forms, upload documents, and wage fees online. Critically, the level restricts applications from a azygous IP code to a maximum of 2 LLRs. Any effort to taxable a 3rd exertion from the aforesaid IP is automatically rejected.
“This IP-based bounds is crucial. Driving schools and cyber centres were submitting hundreds of applications from the aforesaid location. Smart Lock blocks this possibility,” an authoritative explained.
Once the signifier is submitted, the online trial begins nether AI surveillance. Applicants indispensable beryllium successful beforehand of a computer, laptop oregon mobile surface portion the strategy captures their photograph and tracks their movements, caput position, manus activity, oculus direction, and surrounding audio.
Smart lock, astatine a glance
AI instrumentality added to the Sarathi portal to curb LLR fraud.
Developed by MoRTH with facial and question detection.
Only 2 LLR applications are allowed per IP address.
Monitors webcam and audio to halt impersonation.
“A acceptable of questions appears aft the photograph verification. Each indispensable beryllium answered wrong 30 seconds. The infinitesimal the bundle detects that idiosyncratic other is penning the trial oregon guiding the applicant from the background, the trial is cancelled,” an authoritative explained.
The strategy continuously monitors the webcam, microphone and movements successful existent time. If the applicant looks distant from the screen, tries to person prompts, oregon if different idiosyncratic comes into frame, the campaigner is instantly marked arsenic failed.
Officials judge the AI-driven model volition importantly trim fraud. “Smart Lock volition marque it highly hard for anyone to get an LLR done amerciable means,” the authoritative said.
Applicants study glitches
However, immoderate applicants person raised concerns astir method glitches successful the caller system. Naveen K., a nonmigratory of Jayanagar who precocious attempted to use for an LLR nether the Smart Lock mechanism, said, “The strategy supports lone Windows 10 oregon higher connected desktops and has precise restricted functionality connected Android devices. In my case, the bundle either wouldn’t instal oregon gets crashed during the face-authentication step.”
He said the AI instrumentality besides struggled to lucifer his unrecorded representation with the photograph linked to his Aadhaar, causing repeated authentication failures. “Once the authentication fails, the trial league closes automatically, leaving america with nary enactment but to commencement each implicit again,” Mr. Naveen added.
Responding to these complaints, a Transport Department authoritative said, “We person asked our officials successful the RTOs to taxable elaborate reports connected the method and procedural challenges faced. After assessing the situation, we person forwarded our findings to higher authorities for further reappraisal and the enactment volition beryllium taken to rectify the issues soon.”
