After Transport Minister faces aggressive honking, Kerala launches Statewide crackdown on high-decibel air horns

Kerala’s Transport Minister Ok.B. Ganesh Kumar has introduced a Statewide crackdown on using high-decibel air horns.

Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) officers mentioned Mr. Ganesh Kumar himself was on the receiving finish of aggressive honking by a seemingly impatient heavy-vehicle driver not too long ago.

Mr. Ganesh Kumar additionally ordered MVD officers to confiscate air horns from automobiles and destroy them publicly to ship a transparent message to wrongdoers.

Special drive

In a communique, Mr. Ganesh Kumar underscored the rampant use of air horns. He ordered a particular drive from October 13 to 19. Field officers ought to report violations to Deputy Transport Commissioners and take stringent motion, together with fines. 

Prolonged and unreasonable blowing of air horns, particularly by buses and freight automobiles, posed a risk to drivers of smaller automobiles, together with two-wheelers. They additionally put pedestrians in danger and violated sound air pollution norms, it mentioned.

Mr. Ganesh Kumar discovered himself within the highlight final week when he abruptly cancelled the flagging-off ceremony for 52 not too long ago procured enforcement vans by the MVD.

He mentioned some officers accountable for organising the operate, touted as an achievement of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities, had failed to rearrange the automobiles in an attention-grabbing order. The Minister had additionally frowned on the alleged laxity of MVD officers in giving most publicity to the ceremony.