Lucknow, Oct. 30 -- Uttar Pradesh is set to roll out new faceless or contactless transport services, including hill endorsements for commercial vehicle drivers, duplicate Public Service Vehicle (PSV) badges, and additional driving licence endorsements for vehicles used by defence personnel. The state will also allow online hypothecation addition for vehicles purchased on loan.

Interestingly, before Uttarakhand was carved out as a separate state in 2000, UP used to issue hill endorsements for driving in its hilly regions. The practice stopped thereafter but is now being resumed as part of the state's digital transport reforms desired by the Centre.

The decision was taken at a recent meeting chaired by chief secretary SP Goyal following d...