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- Linah Baliga

MUMBAI: In a relief to taxi drivers as well as passengers, the state transport department on Monday took charge of collating taxi drivers' and providing them with a 16-digit unique identity number (UIN) for their speed governors, resulting in them not getting a fitness certificate. Nearly half of the city's kaali-peeli taxis were stranded at RTOs or roads for a month due to this.

Additional transport commissioner Bharat Kalaskar, who heads Tardeo RTO, confirmed this and said, "The drivers must submit relevant documents to us. We will verify and issue the 5-digit UIN."

These details include the name of the permit holder/driver, vehicle number, old UIN of the speed governor, and date of installation. "We have asked the drivers to send these and are recording it on our letterheads which we will then submit to the RTOs," said Iqbal Singh, a member of the Mumbai Taxi Association. Currently, the RTOs at Tardeo, Wadala, Andheri, and Borivali are working on it.