India, April 24 -- A scam in the "faceless" online learning licence system has been caught by the state's RTOs, where applicants are getting a learner's license by using photographs of other people in the online application form. As a corrective step, beginning this month, applicants for a learner's license can fill forms and book test slots online but will be required to be physically present at the RTOs for taking the learner's license test. This will ensure that the applicant and the person taking the test are the same.

"The transport department is in the midst of preparing this proposal, and it will be implemented soon," said an RTO official. "We found that if the security software of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) is bypassed...