Unfit Vehicles Running Fearlessly In MP

MP, Road Accidents,

Sagar Watch/  The entire government may have been shaken by the incident of death of 13 people when the bus caught fire after colliding with a dumper on Guna-Aaron Road on Wednesday night, but the condition of passenger vehicles running on the roads across the state is very bad. 

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.