From today (December 9), stay at home and press the button to change your driver's license
From this afternoon (December 9), the national public service portal officially opened, people can do some procedures such as changing driver's license, health insurance card, etc. while sitting at home or anywhere.
Millions of records and documents will be done with 1 click
Five groups of public services were implemented in 63 provinces and cities right after the national public service portal was launched this afternoon.
These are the procedures: Changing driver's license; notifying promotional activities; re-issuing health insurance cards due to loss or damage; low-voltage power supply service (for people and households); medium-voltage power supply service (for businesses) and integrating electricity payment utilities.
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People no longer have to go to government agencies to change their driver's license as before. |
Some public services performed at the ministerial level include: Issuing international driving licenses, registering promotions, service groups on issuing certificates of origin of goods, and electronic tax payment for enterprises.
According to the report of the Vietnam Road Administration (Ministry of Transport), in 2018, the number of applications for changing driving licenses was over 965,500, international driving licenses were 7,500, promotional announcements were 2 million, low-voltage power was 750,000, and the Social Insurance had to process 2.6 million applications for changing health insurance cards/year.According to the General Department of Population and Family Planning, the number of children born annually in Hanoi is about 200,000 and in Quang Ninh about 15,000, the number of children born in 1 day is 4,280. With such a large number, online birth registration will be convenient, reducing many additional costs...
Deputy Director General of the Vietnam Road Administration Phan Thi Thu Hien said that on the General Administration's data system, there are over 45 million motorcycle driving licenses and over 8.2 million car driving licenses issued.
The service of changing driving licenses on the National Public Service Portal is performed at level 3 (conducting application procedures online, paying fees (if any) and receiving results directly at the agency or organization providing the service).
The international driving license service will be deployed at level 4, people can sit at home to apply for an international driving license and have the license returned to their home.
Just visit the only address dichvucong.gov.vn
According to calculations by the Department of Administrative Procedure Control, when implementing level 3 online public services for driver's license exchange procedures, the total minimum cost saved is more than 740 billion VND.
This includes the cost savings from not having to travel to the local driver's license issuing office to submit documents, take photos, receive results, and reduce the cost of preparing documents and papers.
When implementing level 4 public services in the second quarter of 2020, allowing individuals to complete the entire process of handling documents online, it will save at least 1.5 days with an amount of VND 323.9 billion. This helps the total minimum cost saved when implementing level 4 online public services to be VND 1,064 billion.
According to the report of the Vietnam Road Administration, the total number of international driving licenses issued by the Administration in 2018 was 7,503. Level 4 online public services help individuals save at least 1 day of travel time to submit documents, receive results (4 trips back and forth) and the cost of preparing documents and papers as required by the procedure, saving 2.57 billion VND/year.
Minister and Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung said that public services from ministries, branches and localities will be integrated into the portal with the spirit of creating transparency and saving time and costs for people and businesses in the best way.
People and businesses only need to access the single address dichvucong.gov.vn, with a single account to log in to all public service portals at the ministry and provincial levels to perform online public services.
The implementation of online public services by citizens and businesses will no longer depend on time or administrative boundaries.
For example, a person born in Ho Chi Minh City, granted a driver's license by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport but living in Hanoi will not have to return to Ho Chi Minh City but access the national public service portal to complete the procedure of choosing the Hanoi Department of Transport as the place to issue and renew the license.