MICRODOT TECHNOLOGY

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• The Ministry of Road Transport has issued a draft notification to amend Central Motor Vehicle Rules, allowing motor vehicles and their parts to be affixed with permanent and nearly invisible microdots.
  
  
• Microdot technology involves spraying the body and parts of the vehicle or any other machine with microscopic dots, which give a unique identification.
  
  
• The microdots and adhesive will become permanent fixtures/affixation which cannot be removed without damaging the asset, that is the vehicle itself.
  
  
• These nearly invisible microdots can only be read physically with a microscope and identified with ultra violet light source.
  
  
• Use of this technology will help check theft of vehicles and also use of fake spare parts.
  
  
• The notification says that the microdots, if affixed, will have to comply with AIS 155 requirements.
  
  
• The Ministry has sought comments / objections on the draft notification within 30 days.