NEW DELHI: Transport department sending out SMSs to verify vehicle owners. By reaching out to vehicle ownersthrough SMSs, the transport department in Delhi is updating and authenticating its database of mobile numbers of vehicle owners.

The owners received a SMS that mentions vehicle’s registration number and asksto confirm the number by sending a message to a phone number.

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A senior transport department official said. “We plan to have an accurate database containing mobile numbers of all vehicle owners in the city. However, we don’t have records of most vehicle owners as many don’t submit their mobile numbers while the vehicle’s registration certificate is made,”

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He further added, “In the first phase, we are sending out SMSes to the phone numbers that we have. It is possible that a lot of these numbers are wrong or the owners have changed their mobile numbers.”

Talking about next phase, the department will start collecting mobile numbers of vehicle owners whose contact details the department doesn’t have.