More than 1850 transport vehicles were checked and 487 were either challaned or impounded in the union territory of Chandigarh in the month of May by the State Transport Authority (STA). Several vehicle owners were also issued notices.
An intensive checking campaign of commercial vehicles was conducted by the STA aiming to curb the tendency of plying unauthorized vehicles with incomplete documents, driving overloaded vehicles and make the city pollution free.
During the inspection drive, a total of 363 vehicles including CC bus, tourist bus, school bus, truck, auto passenger, auto load, taxi, tractor, driving school were challaned while 124 vehicles were impounded.
The challaned vehicles included 10 tourist buses, 22 school buses,148 trucks, 61 auto passengers, 57 taxis among others. Apart from this, 72 trucks, 16 auto passengers, 3 tractors, 7 taxis etc. were impounded. The STA also issued 25 pollution notices to the vehicles.
By compounding the challans, Rs 920700 were recovered as composition fee by the STA.