But at present, looking at the kind of information and pictures the officials of the Regional Transport Department are providing to the media, it seems as if checking HSRP Plates on vehicles for them has just become a way of fun and to show themselves busy in work, even when they don't remain in the office.
Whenever the Transport Department goes into a frenzy of checking the vehicles, the faults in the vehicles running unhindered on the road come to light. An example of this is the checking being done by the Regional Transport Department in Sagar.
The Regional Transport Department inspected passenger buses and other vehicles passing through the Sagar-Narsinghpur route at Baheria Tiraha. In the checking, 54 buses passing between morning and evening were examined, out of which more than half of the buses were found to have some kind of serious irregularities.
In the checking, the drivers of 24 passenger vehicles were not in the prescribed uniform. He was not found to have pollution certificate or heavy vehicle driver's license. Apart from this, vehicle indicators, parking lights and brake lights were not found working in their vehicles, nor were first aid boxes found in the buses.
Not only this, fire extinguishers were found inactive in the buses. Due to these deficiencies, a fine amount of Rs 37500/- was recovered from the vehicles under various sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
The negligence of the operators of passenger buses was found to be even more serious. During checking, tires of two passenger buses were found to be in bad condition, seats were found attached to the emergency door, iron mesh and iron stairs were found installed at the rear of the bus, the floor was found broken in one passenger bus. The fitness certificate of these two passenger buses has been canceled with immediate effect under Section 56(4) of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988.
On Wednesday, on the instructions of Divisional Regional Transport Officer, the department staff checked the documents of 45 e-rickshaws in the city. During investigation, more than a dozen e-rickshaws were found to be operating against the rules without documents.
In this regard, the Regional Transport Officer has instructed all the vehicle owners to get registration number strips installed on their vehicles and ensure that the vehicles are operated as per the rules.
Regional Transport Officer, Sunil Kumar Shukla said that under the scheme, 155 vehicle owners in Sagar district have so far availed benefits on the outstanding tax amount on their owned vehicles and The amount of Rs 5177300/- was received by the government as tax.
Vehicle owners of such passenger and load-carrying vehicles registered in this office have been told that on whose vehicles the amount of motor vehicle tax and penalty is outstanding, and they are eligible as per the above notification, they can get the benefit of this scheme in maximum numbers.
