Tag: Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2019

New Delhi: Seeking to increase penalties for traffic rules violations, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday introduced the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha. The Bill provides for regulation of cab aggregators and issues related to third-party insurance. The draft law has proposed a digitised licensing system to centralize […]

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday cleared the bill to amend 30-year old motor vehicle law to improve road safety, raise penalties for traffic violations, curb RTO (Regional Transport Office) corruption and other measures to transform the transport sector. Though the Lok Sabha has already passed The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, last week, […]

Nagpur: Union Road Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday defended the high penalty under the new motor vehicles act, saying the idea behind it is to make people conform to rules, and asked what is more important lives or money. Speaking during a programme in Nagpur, Gadkari tried to address the criticism of […]

Bhubaneswar: The police on Tuesday launched an awareness drive on the new Motor Vehicles Act in and around Bhubaneswar offering free helmets to bare-headed two-wheeler riders and roses to the law-abiders. The move came a day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked officials not to enforce provisions of the new Motor Vehicles Act aggressively for […]