Authorities have issued over 198 cr traffic challans worth Rs 189873 cr in 2021 Gadkari
New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Authorities have issued over 198 crore challans worth Rs 189873 crore for traffic violations across the country in the 2021 calendar year Parliament was informed on Thursday In a written reply to the Lok Sabha Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said 215328 cases of road rage and rash driving were reported in 2021 as per the governments centralised database According to data provided by the minister Delhi has seen the highest number of challans at 7189824 followed by Tamil Nadu 3626037 and Kerala 1741932 challans Authorities have issued over 40 lakh challans worth Rs 417 crore for traffic violations across the country between January 1 to March 15 2022 Gadkari said To improve road safety and tighten traffic regulations such as issuance of driving licences and impose stricter penalties for violations Parliament on August 5 2019 had passed the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2019 President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Bill on August 9 2019 The minister also said that while the number of traffic violations under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 before between February 1 2017 to August 31 2019 the implementation of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 was 13872098 the number of cases after September 1 2019 to February 2022 the implementation of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 stood at 48518314 Gadkari said his ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on education engineering both of roads and vehicles enforcement and emergency care PTI BKS DRR
New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Authorities have issued over 198 crore challans worth Rs 189873 crore for traffic violations across the country in the 2021 calendar year Parliament was informed on Thursday In a written reply to the Lok Sabha Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said 215328 cases of road rage and rash driving were reported in 2021 as per the governments centralised database According to data provided by the minister Delhi has seen the highest number of challans at 7189824 followed by Tamil Nadu 3626037 and Kerala 1741932 challans Authorities have issued over 40 lakh challans worth Rs 417 crore for traffic violations across the country between January 1 to March 15 2022 Gadkari said To improve road safety and tighten traffic regulations such as issuance of driving licences and impose stricter penalties for violations Parliament on August 5 2019 had passed the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2019 President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Bill on August 9 2019 The minister also said that while the number of traffic violations under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 before between February 1 2017 to August 31 2019 the implementation of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 was 13872098 the number of cases after September 1 2019 to February 2022 the implementation of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 stood at 48518314 Gadkari said his ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on education engineering both of roads and vehicles enforcement and emergency care PTI BKS DRR
