The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Tuesday received another 600,000 driver’s license cards that will help address a growing backlog, Transportation Secretary Jaime J. Bautista said.
This develops in the wake of a successful delivery of 1 million cards two weeks earlier.
“The 600,000 cards will fill the backlog from the previous year,” Bautista said as he turned over the license cards following the Court of Appeals lifting of the preliminary injunction by issued by a Quezon City court in 2023.
The license cards were on top of those delivered to the LTO earlier.
The transport chief said at least 2.2 million more such cards will be delivered to the LTO in May and subsequently distributed to the various LTO district and satellite offices.
“Now that the writ is lifted, we can now proceed with the issuance of license cards for new DL applicants and those who will renew,” Secretary Bautista said.
LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II said his office expects the delivery of 3.2 million more cards 45 days from the first delivery of 1 million cards on March this year.
