People in general, don’t tend to follow the rules, especially in our country. In our day to day lives, most of us often ignore ‘No Parking’ signboards and park our vehicles wherever we want, isn’t it? Even though we adhere to it, we mostly care about being fined than our safety.
So, the Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari had a wonderful idea to eradicate this carelessness by the people. If one follows the rule implemented by Gadkari, the owner of the vehicle is not only fined but the person who identifies the vehicle parked at illegal places are rewarded.
The Minister on Monday asked citizens to click pictures of wrongly parked vehicles and send to authorities while proposing a 10 percent reward for them from Rs 500 fine imposed on the owner of the concerned vehicle. Amazing offer, isn’t it?
Gadkari during the laying of foundation stone for his own Ministry’s automate parking had said in May 2016 he felt ‘ashamed’ that absence of parking lots outside his own Ministry forced ‘ambassadors’ and big people to park on road blocking the way to Parliament.
“In my Motor Vehicle Act, I am going to add one law (provision). Any car on road, you just take the photo on your mobile and send it to the department concerned or Police. There will be Rs 500 fine and 10 percent will go to the complainant. No parking places are available. People are using roads for that,” Gadkari said.
The minister went on to say, “every day it is shameful for me, the Ambassadors are coming, the big people are coming. In front of Parliament, my total road is blocked and for getting permission to build a parking place I needed 13 permissions. The ministry had to wait nine months to get approvals for a ‘simple automated parking lot.”
Gadkari had raised the issue with Venkaiah Naidu. Gadkari, who has been very keen on this project, had expressed anguish over this delay at its foundation laying ceremony at Transport Bhawan near Parliament, prompting Naidu to promise a one-month cap on a grant of all such permissions.
Transport Bhawan will be the first government building to have an automated multi-level car parking facility in its premises at a cost of about Rs 9 crore. The automated parking lot project is being undertaken by NHIDCL. The facility will comprise ground plus seven floors.
Rejecting the battery swapping policy proposed by Niti Aayog to promote advanced electric mobility in the country, Gadkari said that it is not viable in India. Niti Aayog has in its report come out in favor of standardized, smart and swappable batteries with lease and/or pay-per-use business models.
The Motor Vehicles Bill, which aims to usher in far-reaching reforms in the transport sector, was in August referred to a 24-member Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha. The committee will have to submit its report to the Rajya Sabha by the first day of the next session “without extension of time, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien has said.
Strengthening its case, the report stated that the accelerated adoption of electric and shared vehicles could save $60 billion in diesel and petrol cost and cut down as much as 1 gigaton of carbon emissions for India by 2030.
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