Transport Secretary reviews functioning of Motor Vehicles Department

Srinagar, May 22:   Secretary of Transport Department Neeraj Kumar Wednesday chaired a review meeting regarding the functioning of the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) at the civil secretariat here.

The meeting was attended by Rajendra Singh Tara, Transport Commissioner J&K, Rajeshwar Singh Charak, Additional Secretary Transport Department, Maqsood Zamaan, DIG Traffic, Vinay Samotra, Joint Transport Commissioner J&K, Paramvir Singh, Additional Secretary Road Safety Council besides RTOs and ARTOs.

The Transport Commissioner gave a brief presentation on e-challaning, the establishment of RTDCs and DTCs and ICC, action against traffic violators, RSVF, VLTP, printing of driving licenses and other allied matters.

The Transport Secretary emphasised the need for evolving a robust mechanism to ensure prompt delivery of driving licenses to the general public.

He said that efforts were being made to establish ITDR and ICC in the Kashmir division for which MD JKRTC has already been directed to get these facilities established at the central workshop in Pampore.

Kumar also asked for raising the Driving Training Centres (DTCs) in far-flung districts, both in Kashmir and Jammu divisions, so that the facility is made available to the desirous applicants at their doorstep.

Discussing the J&K transport subsidy scheme, he asked the Transport Commissioner to ensure wide publicity of the scheme to benefit maximum eligible applicants towards this important initiative of the government.

Regarding traffic violations, it was intimated by SSP Traffic that MVD and Traffic Police need to work together to curb this menace.

The Secretary issued on-spot instructions for intensifying road checking in all districts.

He asked the officers to ensure that the offenders were booked as per provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act.

He asked the RTOs and ARTOs to make road checking a routine feature with a focus on speed limit devices, overloading, overcharging of passenger fares and route violations.

Kumar also issued instructions for improving the public delivery system to provide services to the public as per fixed timeline bringing added efficiency to the system.