Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed continuous drive for inspection of vehicles and to cancel licences of drunken drivers immediately. Reviewing activities of Transport Department at Mantralaya here on Friday, Chouhan also directed for continuous checking of vehicle for pollution and fitness.
If passengers complaint about overloading with photograph of buses through Whatsapp or other social media to officers, strict action will be taken against concerning vehicle's driver and owner.
For this, a new system will be evolved soon.
This would help curb overloading in buses with cooperation of passengers. The Chief Minister directed to improve arrangements at bus stands under PPP. The Chief Minister instructed to allocate Rs5 crore initially to start functioning of Public Transport Infrastructure Authority.
The meeting was informed that for school buses, tax has been reduced from Rs120 to Rs12 per seat. It has benefited 15,000 school buses in the State. Online arrangements have been started for registration and issuuance of licenses to vehicles. Registration of 17,000 drivers has been made under CM's Driver-Conductor Welfare Scheme.
Transport revenue has increased to Rs1571 crore and will further increase to Rs2100 by year-end. Free driving licences are being provided to women. lifetime tax on vehicles has been reduced.
In the interest of farmers, tax on vehicles for agriculture use has been reduced from 6 to one percent. In all, 3000 centres will be set up to issue vehicle pollution control certificates.
Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh, Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa, Principal Secretary to CM Iqbal Singh Bains and other senior officers attended the meeting.