LTO Central Luzon resolves plate backlogs

By Mar T. Supnad

SAN FERNANDO CITY – In just a matter of two months, the once perennial problem of severe backlog in cases of plates and drivers’ licenses has been resolved, a top official of the Land Transportation in the region said Thursday.

LTO director Marina P. De Jesus told this correspondent in an impromptu interview inside her office that the approximately 5,000 cases of delayed plates is now almost solved.

Aside from this, almost 18,000 cases of drivers’ licenses have also been processed and released in just a short period of time.

Last April, De Jesus was designated as LTO RD of Region 3. A native of San Fernando City and a pure Kapampangan, De Jesus was director of LTO region 2 before she was pulled transfered to solve the problems in LTO region 3.

LTO spokesman Jason Salvador earlier said that when they first implemented the No Registration, No Travel Policy last April, it was with the understanding that there were no backlogs nationwide because those were the reports that they were getting from the regional offices.

But soon as Director De Jesus took over the directorship in LTO Central Luzon, she called for a meeting among her chiefs of offices to resolve the problem. The heads of offices acted with dispatch and in apparent show of support for the new lady director.