Hyderabad: Most driving licence cards and vehicle registration cards issued by the road transport department in the last four years pose a serious security risk, as the company, which was contracted by the previous BRS government in 2023, has been supplying smart cards having unsafe Chinese chips, which are easy to hack, alleged a whistleblower.

According to Dr Kamal Soi, an international expert on transport and road safety, Colorplast India was awarded a tender by the transport department in February 2023 to supply pre-printed PVC 64K Scosta smart cards on a rate contract basis for one year.

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Scosta is an acronym for the Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application, an operating system standard for contact smart cards developed on the request of the Union Road Transport Ministry in 2002.

Dr Soi said that Colorplast India had been winning the contract to supply smart cards for the four successive years. It stopped the supply of smart cards in July 2024.

He alleged that Colorplast India had violated contract conditions by supplying non-compliant Scosta smart cards having substandard Chinese chips. “The supply of smart cards with Chinese chips pose a serious threat to India’s cybersecurity and national security interests as it could give a potential backdoor access to China for espionage. It is a serious criminal act committed by the company,” Dr Soi explained.

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