Applicants for new drivers licenses in Bayawan City and the neighboring areas would not have to travel all the way to Dumaguete for that purpose, after the Land Transportation Office (LTO) granted the LTO-Bayawan the authority to process applications for new licenses.
LTO-Bayawan District Office chief Alberta Janine Lawas confirmed on Tuesday that she has received a copy of LTO Office Order No. 2017-217, signed by Assistant Sec. Edgar Galvante and dated Oct. 4, 2017, that gives authority to process application for new driver’s license.
The order also authorizes the installation of the Automated Driver’s License Examination System Facility (ADLES) for the LTO-Bayawan City District Office.
Lawas expressed gratitude to the LTO for finally giving her office the go-signal to process applications for new driver’s license, saying that this will help the people in far-flung areas in southern Negros Oriental.
According to her, the LTO-Bayawan District Office previously catered only to applications for renewal of driver’s license and for a student permit.
The issuance of new driver’s license by the LTO-Bayawan District Office will soon be operational when the equipment and peripherals will be delivered and the operational and administrative requirements are in place, she said. (Judy Flores Partlow/PNA)