Case study – Government

Personalized driver’s licenses on PVC

Personalized and secure driver’s licenses in plastic-card format.

The Challenge

Modernizing the Indian driver’s license format was a major feature in the road safety policy initiated by the Indian authorities a few years ago. Following the example of 11 other Indian states, Uttar Pradesh, the most densely populated state in India (over 200 million inhabitants) recently decided to provide driver’s licenses in the format of a bank card, considering the medium to be reliable, secure, and suitable for the rapid retrieval of driver profiles.

The solution

Evolis solutions were chosen to produce this smartcard license. For this project, Evolis India worked in partnership with M-Tech Innovations, responsible for integration. More than 250 Primacy printers were deployed in 2013, to print more than 10 million cards over the next 5 years.

The result

The Uttar Pradesh project confirmed the confidence placed in Evolis solutions by the Indian administrations and strengthened the market penetration of Evolis printers for personalizing driver’s licenses. 

Since 2001, Evolis printers have been used to personalize millions of driver’s licenses, particularly in Punjab, Delhi, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, and Karnataka. 

La confiance dans les imprimantes Evolis est réelle depuis des années en Inde. Le choix de la Primacy a donc été assez rapide. La Primacy présente de nombreux avantages. Elle se distingue par la fiabilité de ses impressions et la garantie d’un résultat professionnel.
Jagdish Rajpurohit, Managing Director at Evolis India