Nearly 7 crore collected in compounding charge for violations by automobiles

With the Transport division embarking on a particular drive to verify compliance of contract carriage buses within the aftermath of the Kurnool bus accident, officers of the Road Transport Authority checked scores of automobiles and seized as many as 9 buses, together with one which allegedly had blocked the exit.

According to RTA officers, to date, 270 car verify reviews had been issued, and ₹6.92 crore had been collected by the use of compounding charge. Violations included automobiles plying the roads with industrial items onboard, and never carrying first help kits. As many as 9 automobiles had been seized from October 25 to November 1.

“This is an ongoing drive. We will proceed to verify personal buses and guarantee compliance. In due course, we now have been noticing some violations in these buses, together with not having hearth extinguishers in them. On Friday (October 31), a sleeper bus enroute to Bengaluru was discovered to have the exit locked from the within,” mentioned a senior Transport division official.

The Transport division obtained into motion quickly after tragedy struck aboard the V Kaveri Travels sleeper bus on October 24 wherein 19 passengers had been killed. While the bus had a Daman and Diu license plate, it got here to mild that it was re-registered in Rayagada in Odisha. The bus, based on senior officers from the Odisha Transport division, had first entered that State in April this 12 months after which it was registered there.

The Telangana authorities is gearing as much as organise a joint-meeting of transport commissioners from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. In the latest previous, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar informed The Hindu that discussions growing a mechanism to observe personal buses working on All India Tourist Permits are on the anvil.