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| RTO Jammu ill equipped for conducting fitness tests of vehicles | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 22: The mal-functioning of the Regional Transport Office Jammu can be very well gauged from the fact that it carries out the test of the transport vehicles for issuing fitness certificates with manual and visual inspection as it does not have the requisite infrastructure of the equipments and apparatus for such test.
Sources told Early Times that the fitness certificates of transport vehicles were issued by the Board of Inspection which is constituted by the Transport Commissioner to examine transport vehicles for issue of certificate of fitness.
"Shockingly in RTO Jammu fitness certificates of transport vehicles are issued simply on visual inspection of the vehicles as the department has no requisite equipments and apparatus for undertaking tests pertaining to exhaust gas, engine tuning, engine analysis, brake system, wheel alignments, compressors, etc for inspection of the vehicles," they informed. They said that the practice is used at every district office as well as, the fitness certificates were issued on the basis of manual inspection as no specialized infrastructure for fitness purpose had been provided by the Department to district offices. Moreover, there are thousands of certificates pending for renewal and outstanding revenue on account of issue/ renewal of fitness certificates is not available with the Department. Sources said that RTO Jammu had submitted a proposal to set up testing center with latest equipments and apparatus few years ago. "In the proposal, two testing lane has been proposed with the estimantd cost of Rs 1 crore each testing lane and for that a piece of land had to be acquired by the Transport Department but it failed to make it available," Sources further informed that as per section 56 of the Central Motor Vehicle Act 1988 read with Rule 62 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989 provides that transport vehicle shall not be deemed to be validly registered unless it carries a certificate of fitness issued by the prescribed authority and prescribes the period of its validity and mode of renewal. |
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