The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders. The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders.
Around 300 commercial vehicles have been fined a total of Rs 3.48 lakh in a fortnight of the pollution checking drive launched jointly by the state transport department, the district administration and
These rules may be called the Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2013. Save as otherwise provided, the rules shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
The following draft of certain rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 27,41, 50 and
The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers had proposed to set up a national chemical centre to formulate environment and human-friendly policies and contain risks posed by chemicals. This is aimed at streamlining legislation governing the industry and making entities concerned responsible for their acts. The industry, at present, is governed by multiple legislations under several ministries — the Environment Protection Act, 1986; Factories Act, 1948; Motor Vehicles Act, 1988; Explosives Act, 1884; Disaster Management Act, 2005; CWC Act, 2000 and Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
Transport experts and motorists have reacted strongly to the Sunder Committee recommendations making proof of parking mandatory before registration of vehicles. The Sunder Committee was formed to review
For the first time, Puneites can hire battery-operated electric scooters, YoBykes, under a scheme,
<p>Report of the Sundar Committee on amendment of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 submitted to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. This Act may be called the Motor Vehicle Act, 2011. It extends to the whole of India.
<p>A Bill to provide for the establishment of the National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board for the purpose of orderly development, regulation, promotion and optimisation of modern and effective road safety and traffic management system and practices in relation to the national highways and improved safety standards in highway design, construction, operation and regulate high standards in
NEW DELHI: To clamp down on over-speeding and other violations on the roads, the Enforcement Wing of the of Delhi Government's Transport Department has been equipped with 35 specially-designed Tavera vehicles that would help in strict enforcement of the Motor Vehicle Act and Rules 1988. These vehicles were on Thursday flagged off by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from Delhi Secretariat.
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