The Land Transportation Office on Monday said it will have 5,000 copies of driver’s license cards arriving from Banner Plasticard, Inc., the new license maker, before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his second State of the Nation Address next week.
LTO Officer-in-Charge Assistant Secretary Hector Villacorta said the LTO expects to produce 15,000 to 30,000 cards daily within 10 days as part of its commitment to deliver 1 million cards in the next 60 days.
“The production of license cards will start with 15,000 to 30,000 plastic cards a day within 10 days, and the promise is within 60 days they can make 1 million plastic cards, so the issue of lack of supply for plastic cards will be history,” he said.
The first batch of license cards will be distributed to Overseas Filipino Workers and new driver’s license applicants.
“Actually ang nauuna is OFWs and Student Driver’s Permit that mature into Non-pro or Professional license,” said Villacorta.
Banner Plasticard, Inc., according to Villacorta, is capable of producing 15,000 to 30,000 cards daily.
“I’ve seen the factory here in Pasig and they showed me that they can do 15,000 to 30,000 copies everyday,” he said.
On the other hand, driver’s license holders can now access their the electronic copies of licenses via the LTMS Portal.
“Napa-aga ‘yung launch because the IRR takes 15 days to take effect. But we just want to assure the public that things are getting back to normal and we have an additional form that is available, the virtual ID,” he said. The virtual ID will be advantageous to OFWs, who may present the digital copy as proof of identification.
“Pwede rin ipakita ‘yung e-license so we would have a memo to all enforcers that that should be accepted,” he said.
(details from Daily Tribune)
