After deliberating over the idea for some time, the NDA government has come out with draft rules to make microdots mandatory in vehicles. The move is aimed at making India free from vehicle thefts and spurious spare parts.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways under Nitin Gadkari issued a draft notification on July 24, amending the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, and allowing motor vehicles and their parts, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies to be affixed with permanent and nearly invisible microdots that can be read physically with a microscope and identified with ultraviolet light.