More personnel ought to be posted in each of the 86 Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) and Sub RTOs in Kerala, if the around nine lakh applicants for driving licence and registration certificate (RC) were to come and collect them, since none of the offices have manpower to distribute the two documents, say Motor Vehicles department (MVD) officials. The delivery of the documents was held up since mid-November because the MVD, which collected the prescribed fee from applicants, failed to clear dues to the Postal department and to a firm that had been entrusted with printing them. The MVD owes ₹3 crore to the Department of Posts towards delivery charges of the two documents, and another ₹8 crore to the firm in Kochi that was tasked with printing them in PVC-card format. “But for reports that the Minister for Transport has made an announcement that applicants can collect the two documents from RTO and Sub RTO offices, we have not got any written direction in this regard. Currently, 15 officials are in charge of overseeing the …